{"id":7626,"date":"2016-12-11T10:21:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2016-12-11T10:21:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:21:01","slug":"old-methodist-church-westfield-1843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7626","title":{"rendered":"Old Methodist Church, Westfield (1843)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Old-Methodist-Church.jpg\" alt=\"Former Methodist Church in Westfield\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Old-Methodist-Church.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Old-Methodist-Church-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The building at <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=WSF.120\">24-26 Elm Street<\/a> in Westfield was erected as a Methodist Church (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umcwestfield.org\/\">the congregation<\/a>&#8216;s second church building) in 1843. Commercial businesses were located on the ground floor of the building with the church above, a not unusual practice for urban churches of the time. When a new Methodist Church was completed on Court Street in 1875, the Elm Street building became exclusively commercial and the post office moved into the basement. The cupola, roof and third story were razed in the 1940s.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The building at 24-26 Elm Street in Westfield was erected as a Methodist Church (the congregation&#8216;s second church building) in 1843. Commercial businesses were located on the ground floor of the building with the church above, a not unusual practice for urban churches of the time. When a new Methodist Church was completed on Court Street in 1875, the Elm Street building became exclusively commercial and the post office moved into the basement. The cupola, roof and third story were razed in the 1940s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,87,38,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","category-businesses","category-greek-revival","category-westfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7628,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/7628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}