Location Information
(for the First [United] Methodist Church)
Name:First [United] Methodist Church
Address:300 College Place
City/County:Aberdeen, Monroe County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1912
Architectural Styles(s):Gothic Revival
No. of Stories:1
Registration Information
NR District Name:North Aberdeen (1988)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:16
Context/Comments
Designed by architect R.H. Hunt of Chattanooga, Tenn., and built in 1912, the First Methodist Church of Aberdeen is a Gothic Revival auditorium-plan church of brick construction, with concentric curved seating on a diagonal axis. (Capitol Street Methodist Church in Jackson had an identical plan.)

It is listed as a contributing element (element #16) in the in the North Aberdeen Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 22 April 1988.

This building is included in "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (pp. 141-142) and "Historic Churches of Mississippi" (2007) (p. 4).