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The
Jersey
Street Methodist Episcopal Church
was
built on this site. In 1873 the congregation changed its
name to Plymouth Methodist
Episcopal Church in
commemoration of the faith and courage which the Pilgrim
Fathers had shown in
1620 at Plymouth Rock. Because of the church's prominence on
Porter Avenue and
its significance in the community it quickly became the
namesake for Twelfth
Street, whose name was changed to Plymouth Avenue during the
intervening years
1874 to 1884.
In 1911-12, the church was replaced by a larger one - the
present building. The
architects were Cyrus
K. Porter & Son (The father died before the
commission was finished.)
In
1995, the Karpeles Manuscript
Library purchased the abandoned building, making it the
seventh museum in the
The Karpeles Library - the world's largest private holding
of important
original manuscripts & documents. The enormous building
needed over $2
million in extensive renovation.
Visitors to the museum are treated to both special traveling
exhibits from the
museum's collection of over one million manuscripts and
documents, the
permanent collection of documents in the McKinley Room, and
the building
itself. (For more information about the history of the
church and buildings,
see 1989 Application for Landmark
Site Status.)
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