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The church is the headquarters of the Bagdad Village Preservation Association.
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The museum and shops are open on Market Day. The fish fry is held on the grounds like an old fashioned picnic.
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The Methodist Church in Bagdad as seen from the vantage point of Forsyth Street. The viewer is facing south.
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Viewer is facing north on Forsyth St. The church is located on the right of the picture.
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The viewer faces northeast from the vantage point of Forsyth Street in Bagdad, FL.
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The front facade of the church faces Forsyth Street in the downtown historic district. The church was built in 1885.
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The front facade of the church faces Forsyth Street in the downtown historic district. The church was built in 1885.
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A view of the altar facing the south wall of the church.
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A reverse of the above picture shows Charlie Kilpatrick, a church officer.
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The viewer faces the rear of church.
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St. Elizabeth Catholic Church was built in 1923. It is located in north Escambia County.
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The courthouse was built in 1938 by the WPA.
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This side of the courthouse complex faces Bellevelle Avenue.
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The First Baptist Church is located on Church Street.
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Church Street and Jefferson are the two main streets in the old town center. To the right is the Showalter House. The First Baptist Church can be seen in the lower left.
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The town was planned to have First through Fourth Streets. First somehow became Front Street, porbably because it went in "front" of the mill. Third ended up as Church Street because the Methodists and Baptists built thier church houses there.
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The church is located at the corner of Chumukla Highway and 178.
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The little church is nestled between cotton fields in western Santa Rosa County.
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The interior of St. Mary's Episcopal Church is rich in detail with elaborate stained glass windows.
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The Dorr House faces the west side of Seville Square. Old Christ Church can be seen in the background.
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In this view, the Dorr house can be seen across the picket fence of Old Christ Church.
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In this view three houses in the village complex can be seen. The Julee Cottage is directly behind the LaValle House. The Tivoli House is the last building on the right of the photograph.
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The LaValle house museum is a rare example of French Creole colonial architecture. LaValle House was built during Florida’s second Spanish period by Carlos LaValle and Marianna Bonifay. The house is furnished with authentic 18th and 19th century artifacts recreating the frontier lifestyle of Pensacolians.
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The plaque is located on the front of the church on the right side of the door.
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The plaque is located on the front of the church on the right side of the door.
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The church does not have a clear style since it has evolved over time. It has been described as Gothic. In 1832, the church was built for $4,500.00. In the late 1990’s the Historic Pnesacola Preservation Board spend $800,000.00 to rehabilitate the church.
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Originally the building was slicked with a white-colored lime wash to support the weak bake-fired bricks with which it was constructed.
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For a brief while during the Civil War, the entire congregation of Old Christ Church along with all but about 80 of Pensacola’s population, fled to Alabama. During their absence, Union troops occupied the church and used it as a hospital and barracks.
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This is a north view from the vantage point of Church Street.
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Today the building is at the center of Historic Pensacola Village to be used for concerts, recitals, lectures, adn weddings as well as a community town hall.
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The south side of the church is on Zaragoza Street.
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The Christ Church Episcopal parishioners moved into a new church on north Palafox in 1903. The Episcopal Bishop of Florida deconsecrated the building 1935. The building served as the first public library until 1959. Between 1959 and 1995, Pensacola Historical Museum based itself in the bulding, but by 1995 the church had again fallen into disrepair. In 1995, the city voted to return the deed to Old Christ Church vestry who in turn leased it to Historic Pensacola to make it eligible for state grants to fund the necessary repairs.
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Old Christ Church is situated on the corner of Adams and Zaragoza Street across from Seville Square, as can be seen in the photograph.
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The Dorr House can be seen across the front lawn.
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A major renovation of the building took place betwen 1878 and 1879. Dr. Scott’s report for 1879 for the Diocese of Florida states that he had a stained glass window “Light of the World” installed over the altar as a memorial to the late Rt. Rev. Francis Huger Rutledge. All of the stained glass windows were moved in 1903 to the new Christ Church where parishioners still enjoy their beauty. A copy of the “Light of the World” window was made by Rambusch, Inc. of New York. The window was given as a memorial to Elby Godwin by his wife Jeanne and their two children, Honey and Elby, Jr.
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A major renovation of the building took place betwen 1878 and 1879. Dr. Scott’s report for 1879 for the Diocese of Florida states that he had a stained glass window “Light of the World” installed over the altar as a memorial to the late Rt. Rev. Francis Huger Rutledge. All of the stained glass windows were moved in 1903 to the new Christ Church where parishioners still enjoy their beauty. A copy of the “Light of the World” window was made by Rambusch, Inc. of New York. The window was given as a memorial to Elby Godwin by his wife Jeanne and their two children, Honey and Elby, Jr.
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The altar is the original which was returned to Christ Church in the mid-1970’s. The chancel chairs came from a church in Detroit are are dated 1870.
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During the recent church renovation an archaeology study revealed graves of the lost rectors. These three men were the first three rectors of the church. Until 1988, it was only a locally accepted legend that they were indeed buried under the church. Some tales even said that Union troops disentombed them in search for valuables. Dr. Judy Bense of the University of West Florida Archaeology Institute found evidence that the legned may have some validity. The white marble memorial plaque inlaid into the wooden floor is located in the center of the photograph.
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The interior of the building is as much like it was in 1879 as possible. The pews are new and copies of the originals. The lighting is like it was in 1879 when the building was expanded and the roof elevated.
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The church complex is located across the street from Episcopal Day School.
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There is a garden in the rear of the church.
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The side of the building faces Chase Street.
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The church is located on the corner of Chase and Palafox Street in downtown Pensacola.
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The front door of the Warner home was improted from an 18th century German church. The door bell is a replica of a ship's bell from the Titanic.
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The historic marker is placed along the fence on Government Street.
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The old church site is now used as an office building. This is one of the few examples of a wrought iron fence in Pensacola since similar fences were scrapped for the Civil War effort.
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An east view of the facade of the church building shows the elaborate trim work.
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Old Christ Church can be seen in the upper left corner of the photograph.
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The steeple is gone, but this curved building was the old sanctuary before the modern new structure was built in 2004.
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