Question
This week's Where Is It? mystery is a puzzle from the past. The question and answer are given together in this one issue. No need to wait until next week for the answer.
Here's the question -- Linden's first Methodist Church building, now abandoned, sits high on a hill at the southern side of town and across from the rock building that is the current Linden Garden Club. Your question is, what was the relation between these two buildings?
The answer is taken from a previous issue of Regional News. It provides a pleasant memory from the past.
Answer
The garden club's building served as a Sunday School classroom for the church. The rock house was once an automobile service station. On Sunday mornings, it became the site of the Methodist Men's Sunday School Class.
Garden club member Shirley Baker recalls that the Methodists owned the rock building at the time, and she remembers her father and uncle, Wesley Hall and Frank Hall, carrying their coffee cups in hand as they walked across the street from the church to the rock house. There the men would have their Sunday morning Sunday School class. This was before the garden club purchased the building in 1965.
Quite a memory to see those men file up and down those tall steps and across that busy highway, all to attend Sunday School.
The tall and old Linden Methodist Church building stands on East Houston Street and State Highway 11 in the city limits. (Photo by Neil Abeles)
The view is shown from the tall steps leading down from the old Linden Methodist church building and across the highway to the rock house, which now is the Linden Garden Club. (Photo by Neil Abeles)