Wabash Street Methodist Episcopal Church

492 North Wabash Street

Built: 1903

Style: Gothic Revival

The Wabash Street Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in April 1899 after part of the congregation of the First Methodist (now the First United Methodist) Church opposed locating its new building on North Cass Street. The dissenters withdrew and organized a new congregation that built a "handsome and modern" building at Wabash and Stitt in 1903. The structure is now occupied by the Abundant Life Tabernacle.

Gothic Revival elements of this structure include its castellated tower, pointed-arch windows, and irregular massing. The limestone structure also has numerous stained-glass windows with abstracted floral designs and stepped buttresses on each corner.