Conceived and built in an economic depression, West Market Street Methodist was still designed to impress. It survived change within and without its walls to become one of the city’s oldest churches.
Julia Craven
Julia Craven is an award-winning journalist whose bylines include The Washington Post, Slate, Vox, and New York Magazine. She founded Healthy Futures, a Substack for newsletter for wellness consumers who are also well-versed in pop culture, tech, history, and the social determinants of health, and the Library of Black Wellness, a living archive of Black care and well-being.

