Work has started to renovate a historic church at 701 NW 8th.

The Midtown Church in OKC is a Church of the Nazarene and currently hold services at City Pres. They are about halfway to their $1.7 million fundraising goal.

Owned by Saint Anthony Hospital, the church was most recently occupied by Skyline Urban Ministry and was built as a Methodist church in 1911.

It is just north of Red Andrews Park which will start a full renovation this fall.




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^^^^^^
Work is already underway on this. My cardiologist's office is right across the street and at an appointment on Friday I noticed a beehive of activity there including Midwest wrecking trucks. Glad to know a renovation is underway rather than a demo slipping through unnoticed.

I was at the groundbreaking with Bradley Wynn. Took plenty of photos and 4k video but having trouble sharing the video.

Pete, at the ceremony they mentioned they are changing the name of the church to "8th Street Church".

September 10, 2017

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Great to see what is going on with the old 8th Street Church. They want to put the steeple back on that rotted away. Check out their GoFundMe page. https://www.gofundme.com/8thstchurchsteeple

Glad to see this happening. I'm not particularly religious anymore but I do really appreciate historic churches.

New belfry and steeple were installed yesterday afternoon:

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Very Nice!