Lex Anteinternet: Churches of the West: Former First United Methodist Church, Port Arthur, Texas

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Churches of the West: Former First United Methodist Church, Port Arthur, Texas

Churches of the West: Former First United Methodist Church, Port Arthur ...:

Former First United Methodist Church, Port Arthur Texas

This is the Ruby Ruth Fuller Building in Port Arthur, Texas. It was built as a Methodist Church in 1915.

This church may frankly not belong on this blog, as I really question if Port Arthur can be considered the "West". I highly doubt it. I don't know where the West really starts, but it's somewhere west of Port Arthur. Still, this church is west of the Mississippi, so I've included it here.

All of which, I suppose, begs the question a bit. If churches in Port Arthur are in the South (and there are a lot of churches in Port Arthur, are churches in Houston in the South also? What about churches in Dallas. Maybe. Maybe some are in both the South and the West. What about churches in Oklahoma?

Well, we have no desire to create a vast new profusion of blogs, but perhaps we should add a few for this purpose. We're pondering that, and have reserved the URLs to do it. For the meantime, as this posting is at least geographically credible, we'll be content to post this one here.

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