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Central United Methodist Church

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Central United Methodist Church was built in 1924, as the third church of this congregation. The congregation is one of Shelby's oldest, it began meeting in 1845 in a one-room wooden building on the corner of East Warren and South Dekalb streets. The congregation moved to a second site on the corner of Washington and Marion streets in 1874. In 1923 the congregation voted to build a new and larger church. The brick Gothic Revival Church church was designed by Charlotte architect J.M. McMichael, and built by John P. Little & Son.

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Courtesy of Central United Methodist Church

The building materials of the church are striking--red, olive and grey brick accented with stone banding and trim. Other distinguishing features of the church include its buttressed and crenelated towers, rounded arched window, stained glass windows, and inset crosses. The first sermon was delivered in the new church on January 11, 1925. Clyde R. Hoey taught Sunday School here in the 1930s to a class of 300 men, before he became governor of North Carolina. By 1967 the congregation felt the need to build a new education building, for which construction began in 1970. In the late 1980s a $1.5 million renovation project for the church was undertaken.

Central United Methodist Church is located at 200 E. Marion Street in the Central Shelby Historic District. The church welcomes visitors to its service at 11:00am on Sundays. For further information, contact the church at 704-487-6336 or its website.

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