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Location
Church Street, Union
City
Union
County
Union
Date of Founding
1872
Date of Photograph
1-1-2014
Description
Grace United Methodist Church is a large stone Gothic-Revival church building with a two-story educational building and a cemetery. The church was initially constructed in 1872, with James Grant as builder and Col. John L. Young as architect-engineer. Photographs depict this early building as a symmetrical stone church with a central entrance tower and a flanking bell tower on the northwest corner of the nave. The church was substantially enlarged in 1917-1919; Casey & Fant of Anderson, S.C., served as architects and J.M. Crawford as contractor for this enlargement that gave the building its present shape. Grace has a steep gabled rood and a buttressed nave. A low narthex on the west elevation replaces the original entrance tower; a large tracer window rises above the narthex. The tower on the northwest corner of the façade retains its original lower stage; the upper stage was built in 1917-1919, replacing the original spire. The two-story stone educational building on the south side of the church has windows grouped under stone label-molds, and stone coping matching that of the church building. The church cemetery is located to the north of the building. Source: NRHP
Source
National Register of Historic Places
Rights
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