Former Greenmount Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore

http://raven.ubalt.edu/features/es/W_Preston/second/26/goc_history.html

An Overview of Ownership of the Building: http://www.goannun.org/church/history.asp New Jan 2006

Former
Greenmount Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church
1935

Rev. R. R. Murphy, was associated with
Jefferson Street M. E. Church, Baltimore and
the Greenmount Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Baltimore

Early in 1906, 150 of Baltimore's Greek immigrants
gathered in Union Hall on East Fayette Street for a
service performed by a priest borrowed from a Greek
church in Washington, DC. Their monthly request for
the priest's services planted the seeds of a church
which would grow into the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of
the Annunciation, the fifth largest Greek community in
the United States.
The parish sprouted so rapidly that the first
full-time priest arrived in 1907, only one year after
the first gathering. By 1909, the parish was able to
purchase a permanent home at Homewood Avenue and Chase
Streets, formerly the Greenmount Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church.

More info about modern day church at this site.

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Added: 23 February 2002

from 1936 Document Maryland State Archives

NAME OF CHURCH:           Greenmount Methodist Episcopal Church
(Last) STREET ADDRESS:   Chase & Homewood streets
                                 Abandoned 1908

INFORMATION AS TO PREVIOUS BUILDINGS:
    This congregation was on Greenmount & Eager Street but sold their church in 1889 and erected a church on Chase & Homewood St.

Below is a description:
     A gothic stone affair opposite McKim Park.
     Sold to the Greek Ortodox Community Church in 1908.

DATE BUILDING DEDICATED:     Greenmount & Eager-1860
                                       Chase & Homewood - 1884

FIRST SETTLED CLERGYMAN:     Rev. William E. Bird
                                        - from 1860-?
LOCATION OF THEIR RECORDS:
        Records in vault at First
      Methodist Episcopal Church,
      22nd & St. Paul Streets (As of 1936)

OTHER NOTES: Merged with North Avenue And Caroline
                   Street Methodist Episcopal Church
                   -no date given.

Greenmount Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore ,
located corner of Greenmount Ave. and Eager Street.
The edifice dedicated February 19,1860.
In 1889 the site was sold.

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