The Church Looks Toward Puget Sound
Methodist leaders convene in Vancouver to strategize church expansion and infrastructure across the Pacific Northwest.
At the Methodist Episcopal Conference in Vancouver, the committee on the German work reported progress, with Rev. B. F. Bonn having built a church and parsonage in New Tacoma. In Seattle, lots have been secured, and a church will be built early in the coming year. The conference officially selected Seattle as the location for its next session. In the event of a division of the conference, the Puget Sound conference will be held in Seattle.
“In Seattle lots have been secured and a church will be built early in the coming year.”
This meeting highlights the institutional rapid-growth phase of Seattle in 1883, as the city prepared to become a major hub for denominational infrastructure. Today, many of these original church sites have been repurposed or redeveloped, marking the shifts in Seattle's civic and social landscape.
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