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Photographer: International Post Card
Taken: Circa 1900
Caption: First Methodist Church, Tampa, Florida
Additional Description: This vintage postcard shows the Methodists' third church facility. The brick sanctuary was the church's h­­ome from the 1890's until it was razed 1967 and replaced by the current neo-gothic building. This building is remembered for its enormous spire, which so prominently stood as a pinnacle of Tampa's early 1900's skyline that it played a small role in aviation history. When Tony Jannus in 1914 piloted the world's first commercial airline flight, carrying a single passenger across Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg to Tampa, he used the giant spire atop First Methodist Church to plot his course. Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida [PC4434]
Submitted: June 6, 2011, by Glenn Sheffield of Tampa, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p156307
File Size: 0.081 Megabytes

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