Gibson Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist church in Gibson, Louisiana.
Gibson Methodist Episcopal Church is a church building featuring Greek Revival architectural style with symmetrical forms and columns. The structure uses painted wood and whitewashed bricks rather than stone and is located on South Bayou Black Drive.
Construction began in 1849 on land donated by Cornelius and John Wallis in Tigerville, which later became Gibson. The building rose during a period when this area was expanding near the boundary between urban and rural Louisiana.
The church was long known as the Sycamore Church for the sycamore trees in its yard. Among its original members were Tobias Gibson, William Thompson and John McIntyre; Tobias Gibson's son Randall Lee Gibson, later a U.S. senator and representative, asked in 1859 that Tigerville be renamed Gibson.
The church stands on S. Bayou Black Drive in Gibson, with the cemetery on the land donated in 1849 beside it. The building took about six months to complete and was finished by the end of 1849. It is a listed building, so look for the Greek Revival detailing on the exterior rather than expecting a visitor centre.
The church was long known as Sycamore Church for the sycamore trees in its yard. Its original members included Tobias Gibson, William Thompson and John McIntyre; Gibson's son Randall Lee Gibson, who conducted business in French, asked in 1859 that Tigerville be renamed Gibson.
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