National Register of Historic Places
Lisbon Methodist Church
Lisbon, Linn County, Iowa
The record
- Listed
- November 20, 2015
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 200 E. Market St., Lisbon
- County
- Linn
- State
- Iowa
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 41.92246, -91.38352
- Reference number
- 15000952
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The story
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Lisbon Methodist Church is a Queen Anne and Shingle style church at 200 E. Market St. in Lisbon, Linn County, built from 1898 to 1899 by architect and builder Daniel C. Hartung. It was listed in the National Register in 2015.
Why it's listed
It qualifies under Criteria Consideration A for religious properties and was listed under criteria A, B, C and D, with local-level significance in architecture, social history and religion. Its period of significance runs from 1899 to 1965, reflecting the church's completion in 1899.
Physical character
The church has a limestone foundation, brick walls and an asphalt roof, its steepled ell form holding a diagonally oriented auditorium built to the Akron Plan, with basement social rooms, Sunday school spaces and folding doors. Lightning destroyed the spire in 1956; it was replaced in 1999, and a west addition was built in 1995.
Historical context
Area Methodists trace to Nelson Rathbun's 1840 sermon in John Donahoo's cabin, and the congregation became head of its own Lisbon Circuit in 1858. Its first church was built in 1867, dedicated in 1868, and used until 1898. The church hosted a Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention in 1913 and a suffrage lecture in its parlors in 1916.