. Church and Sunday-school work in Yonkers: its origin and progress . ch Rev. Wm. E. Ketcham read a portionof Scripture, struck the stone with a hammer, and said, Inthe name of the Father and of the Son and of the HolyGhost we lay this corner-stone for the foundation of ahouse to be builded and consecrated to the service ofAlmighty God, according to the order and usages of theMethodist Episcopal Church. The doxology was then sung, when Rev. Dr. Gregorypronounced the benediction. On the corner-stone is cut this inscription: FirstMethodist Episcopal Church. 1828-1886. The style of architecture o
. Church and Sunday-school work in Yonkers: its origin and progress . ch Rev. Wm. E. Ketcham read a portionof Scripture, struck the stone with a hammer, and said, Inthe name of the Father and of the Son and of the HolyGhost we lay this corner-stone for the foundation of ahouse to be builded and consecrated to the service ofAlmighty God, according to the order and usages of theMethodist Episcopal Church. The doxology was then sung, when Rev. Dr. Gregorypronounced the benediction. On the corner-stone is cut this inscription: FirstMethodist Episcopal Church. 1828-1886. The style of architecture of this church is modernizedRomanesque. It is of rock face light Belleville stone, withdark brown stone trimmings. There is a tower on thesoutheast corner of Broadway and Ashburton Avenue Chiuch and Sunday-aclioul Work. (y 82 CHURCH AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORK. entirely of stone, one hundred feet from the sidewalk. Itruns square about sixty feet and terminates with a forty-foot spire. There is also a smaller low staircase tower onthe southwest corner, octagonal in 1^ IT!?- i ^/^OTD iteCTfJory-f FIRST MKTHODIST CHURCH. On the Broadway front is a porch with double stair-ways, twenty feet wide, to the main entrance of the porch is ornamented w^ith wrought iron-work is also an entrance to the church proper on theAshburton Avenue side and to the Sunday-school rooms,and one on the Broadway side to the social room, 60 by the Sunday-school room is a kitchen and toilet-roomfor both the social and Sunday-school rooms. The base-ments are lighted by large windows glazed with coloredglass. Through the main auditorium there are two lines ofcolumns which help to support the open - timbered interior columns are connected longitudinally withornamented arcade arches, with ornamental sawed work THE FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 83 above. The caps of the columns are moulded and Sunday-school room in the rear has an open-timberedroof, made t
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