[6001] 6019-21 Germantown Avenue
First Methodist Church
Trustees, 1st Methodist Episcopal Church
Survey, Philadelphia Contributionship policy 17445A
Copy at Philadelphia Historical Commission

Note: 2 photographs and site plan of church are included in the 1913 survey; a site plan of additions is found in the 1931 survey.

The following architectural details were indicated on the Contributionship forms in the survey for the church dated 12/12/1913:
17 year old stone building; hipped/flat slate/tin roof; 2 open stairs; electric and gas lights; gas range in kitchen; steam, gas heat "Boiler room 75 h.p. engine Dynamo. Small Engine drives heating fans & motor drives ventilating fan."

Exposures: "Small Bldg used for choir rehearsals, behind which is a one story frame garage adjoining a blank wall."

Survey dated 9/16/31 for additions north east side of Germantown Ave., about 120 ft. north west from High St.:

site plan

The following architectural details were indicated on the Contributionship forms for 1931 addition:

New brick and stone building, fire resistant in part; stone parapet walls and cornice; hipped and flat roof, slate and slag; all steel joists, plaster on wire ceilings, hollow tile and brick partitions, reinforced concrete floors on steel joists, protected steel columns; two open stairs; oil hot water heat; electric lighting; kalamein and metal-lined wood fire doors.


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