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Elmore County Living • Winter 2010 called much about the colorful panes. “They were not cheap,” Griffith said.
First Baptist Church – Tallassee Tallassee’s First Baptist Church houses six tall stained glass windows in its sanctuary. The windows, manufactured by Kansas City Stained Glass Works in Kansas City, Mo., in the early 1920s, are the same ones used at the church’s first location when it opened in 1924. When the Learning Tree School bought the church’s original building, Tallassee First Baptist moved to its current location on Friendship Road on Sept. 26, 2004. The windows were restored in Tennessee before being placed in the new sanctuary. The wooden frames were replaced with aluminum ones. “The members feel (the windows) look better in this building than they ever have,” said current pastor Derek Gentle. “It’s a bigger room, and it gives everyone a chance to see them better.” There are three names dedicated on the colorful windows: A.J. Lilly, who was a Sunday School superintendent, and for-
A stained glass cross is a prominent feature of the Eclectic United Methodist Church. PHOTO BY DAVID GOODWIN
Eclectic United Methodist Church The windows of Eclectic United Methodist Church glow with color in the Sunday morning light. In the sanctuary, the chapel and the fellowship hall, beautiful stained glass images shine. Each one dates back to the church’s old location on Main Street. That building has since become Eclectic’s town hall. The windows still bear the names of the prominent families that purchased and donated them: Edwards, Hale, Hardin and Cousins, among others. Longtime church member Monroe Griffith said the windows were carefully packed up when the church relocated to the current location near the town limits in 1955. Neither Griffith nor other longtime church members re-
Six stained glass windows are located in the sanctuary of Tallassee’s First Baptist Church. PHOTO BY WESLEY SINOR