 Millville founded 1807, built 1868 North 2nd (Route 47) & East Pine Millville's first Methodist Society was organized in 1807 when the Cumberland circuit was set off from the Salem circuit. Today the Methodists of Millville are served by seven different churches, but this was the first. This fine Neoclassical-Romanesque hybrid church was erected in 1868. The windows and entrance are Romanesque, but the clock tower seems to be more in the classic New England style. It sits across the street from the First Presbyterian church and three blocks north of Trinity Methodist church, erected in 1881. Millville can trace its origins to a site three miles north of the city to an area known as the Union, where grist and saw mills were built in the early 18th century. The Maurice River was dammed to provide water to power the mills, and the area became known as Union Mills. In 1795, Col. Joseph Buck, who had served in the Revolutionary War, began to lay out the streets and sell lots. He used the name of Millville for his project. It was incorporated as a city in 1866.  Millville founded 1837, built 1881 Trinity Methodist was founded in 1837 and this substantial late Victorian church, much in the high Methodist idiom of the era, was erected in 1881. The white wooden tracery in the windows, the belfry and the lighter colored stone capping the buttresses is dramatically set off from the red brick building. By the waning decades of the nineteenth century architects were borrowing elements from many styles, exaggerating the size of windows and entrances, adding gables and turrets, emphasizing quoins and buttresses with different colored stone or brick, and giving additional prominence to the surface of the building and not just to its form and mass. The building occupies a prominent location, only three blocks from the First Methodist church, which was erected in 1868.  Millville founded 18--, built c1889-1915  Millville founded c.1837, built 1891 This interesting late Romanesque-Gothic hybrid church was erected in 1891, on a large city block between the Methodist and Baptist churches. It has Gothic arches, multiple gables, buttresses and the gargoyles from the Gothic, mixed with the round arches and rusticated stone and timber characteristic of much of the Romanesque. The congregation was organized by 1837. It was obviously designed for an upscale congregation, with a porte-cochere (carriageway) in the rear. The architect was Isaac Pursell of Philadelphia, I believe; he also designed the exceptional First Baptist church in Freehold (Monmouth county).  Millville founded 1842, built 1897 Millville's Central Baptist church sits in the middle of a row of late 19th century churches, one block off the main business street in the city. The congregation was organized in 1842 and this church was erected in 1897, the last of the four to be built. The square tower with the quoins surrounding the windows and the tower's edges, and the little railing around the belfry are elements borrowed from the neo-classical designs of Wren-Gibbs churches, but the asymmetry of the overall plan is clearly from a later Victorian mode. It sits down the street from the Trinity Methodist church and adjacent to the First Presbyterian church, built six years earlier. |
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