First Christian Church

The first church

The first church building

Ames Intelligencer, June 9, 1887
The Christian Church people have purchased the lot immediately west of Folly's Mort., (the new city building on Kellogg Street) and will move the present M.E. Church building to that place in about three months or less.
church history

This historical account is from
the 1987 Centennial Booklet of Ames First Christian Church

Church building at the corner of Fifth and Burnett as pictured in 1897
(Farwell T. Brown Photographic Archive)

This photo of the second church is from the 1915 Ames City Hall time capsule.

First Christian Church congregation in the 1920s

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