. Book of the Royal blue . ey foundation. The second of the two buildings whichit was decided to build for the first Metho-dists in Baltimore was the Lovely LaneMeeting House. This edifice, memorablethrough all time as the place of the organi-zation of the Methodist Episcopal Churchat the Christmas Conference in 1784,was located and erected in 1774 by WilliamMoore and Philip Rogers, two of the Balti-more converts under Asburys site upon which this building stood isnow occupied by the Merchants Club onGerman street, between South and Calvertstreets. On February 11, 1774, Mooreand
. Book of the Royal blue . ey foundation. The second of the two buildings whichit was decided to build for the first Metho-dists in Baltimore was the Lovely LaneMeeting House. This edifice, memorablethrough all time as the place of the organi-zation of the Methodist Episcopal Churchat the Christmas Conference in 1784,was located and erected in 1774 by WilliamMoore and Philip Rogers, two of the Balti-more converts under Asburys site upon which this building stood isnow occupied by the Merchants Club onGerman street, between South and Calvertstreets. On February 11, 1774, Mooreand Rogers took up a subscription andsecured the lot. In April the foundationwas laid. In October of the same yearthe building was so far completed that Cap-tain Webb, a British officer and faithfulpioneer local preacher, spoke in the build-ing. In May, 1776, the tinst conferenceof Methodist preachers held in Baltimoretook place in this meeting house. In December, 1784, the most importantepoch in the history of American Metho-. /.,/.\/).l/. O/ METHODISM. 1)
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