Archive for Florida Churches
This is what the Baptist Church looked like in Orlando back in 1910. The church was located on the corner of Pine Street and Main Street (Now Magnolia Avenue). The little structure just to the left of the church and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Building the Methodist Church, St Cloud, 1909. – Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services.
The Methodist Church in St. Cloud gets built in 1909 at the corner of 10th Street and Ohio Avenue. this is the back of the church. Posing is the volunteer construction crew. Behind them is a tent used by the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Historic Derby Street Chapel is just south of the Historic Cocoa Village in Brevard County. The structure was built between 1919 and 1924 for the Seven Day Adventist Church. The building changed hands among a number of faiths over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A zeppelin flies over St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Key West during Armistice Day, November 11th, 1918. St. Pauls original wooden church was destroyed in 1909 by a hurricane. The new church was being still being constructed when this photograph[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Henry Flagler donated three lots of land to have this first Methodist Church built in Miami in 1898. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Miami’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3LzdaQ1 .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services: Prince of Peace Church, St Augustine.
The Prince of Peace and the giant cross are still a visible site to see in Saint Augustine.This is a postcard that is undated and rather hard to tell from this image. There is extensive new landscaping and other small[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services: ‘Church of the Holy Name’, Miami, around 1900.
This is the ‘Church of the Holy Name’, the first Catholic church in Miami. It was built on eight lots donated by Henry Flagler. This building was replaced with another church in the 1920s and no longer exists. This photo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The First Presbyterian Church of Pompano Beach, built in 1959, has the interesting steeple that has the metal filigree of a grape vine winding it’s way to the top. The church and connected structures sits on an entire block along[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
January 8th, 1922 was the dedication for Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in Ocala. A profession into the church preceded High Mass by Father T.J. Plunkett. This photograph is from, the out-of-print, ‘Catholics of Marion County’ by Jane Quinn. This book[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was 17 members of the Clearwater community who came together in 1891 to start the Clearwater Presbyterian Church. Today it’s known as the Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church. This is a postcard mailed June 6th, 1944 from William Christie, 718[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is an image of a postcard mailed out by the folks above, The Hoezees. The back of the card has a logo of ‘Baptist Missions to the Incarcerated’. Nosing digitally only found mention in a site, titled, GuideStar Profile.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…