8th Street Church

[Pete]

Work has started to renovate a historic church at 701 NW 8th.

The Midtown Church in OKC is a Church of the Nazarene and currently hold services at City Pres. They are about halfway to their $1.7 million fundraising goal.

Owned by Saint Anthony Hospital, the church was most recently occupied by Skyline Urban Ministry and was built as a Methodist church in 1911.

It is just north of Red Andrews Park which will start a full renovation this fall.

[Urbanized]

^^^^^^
Work is already underway on this. My cardiologist's office is right across the street and at an appointment on Friday I noticed a beehive of activity there including Midwest wrecking trucks. Glad to know a renovation is underway rather than a demo slipping through unnoticed.

[UnFrSaKn]

I was at the groundbreaking with Bradley Wynn. Took plenty of photos and 4k video but having trouble sharing the video.

[UnFrSaKn]

Pete, at the ceremony they mentioned they are changing the name of the church to "8th Street Church".

[UnFrSaKn]

September 10, 2017

https://flickr.com/photos/59136137@N...57686100232590

[OkCity57]

Great to see what is going on with the old 8th Street Church. They want to put the steeple back on that rotted away. Check out their GoFundMe page. https://www.gofundme.com/8thstchurchsteeple

[bchris02]

Glad to see this happening. I'm not particularly religious anymore but I do really appreciate historic churches.

[Pete]

New belfry and steeple were installed yesterday afternoon:

[dcsooner]

Very Nice!