This Historical Landmark Carpenter Gothic church was built as Southern Methodist Episcopal Church in 1888. It was a wedding chapel for some time and was converted into a B&B and now it’s for sale.
On one of our Saturday walks in Downtown Ventura, California we decided it deserved a look see. The church is on Main Street.
These handles look like coffin handles to us…
So if anyone has $1,750,000 and wants to run a B&B this could be the place for you!
Photobucket is holding all my photos that I posted on my blog from 2007-2015 hostage and replaced them with big black and grey boxes with threats. So discouraging…as I’m slowly trying to clean up thousands of posts!
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
So. Buy it already!
It is blue. I’m tempted myself. Not a lot. But tempted a little. There would be room for my spinning wheel and floor loom.
Southern Methodist Episcopal. I would love to have a peek onto the past and experience a church service there in 1888. The details you photographed are wonderful. I wonder what the original color was? Probably not as vibrant.
what IS it with you two and coffin handles???
What a gorgeous building! It must not be good as a B&B or it wouldn’t be up for sale. I love the painted lady look.
So cool. If I had a partner who wanted to do all the cooking, hire a cleaning crew—then I would love to be the “are we having fun yet” lady. That is hard work to run a B& B. I almost don’t want to ever stay at any kind of a hotel since my first B& B experience. It’s a much more enjoyable way to travel in my opinion. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Can you imagine how amazing this would be for a B&B? I love all the details, and oh .. .happy fall to you too.. . I love your collage below.
What a cool building. Looks like it would make a great coffee house/concert venue/bookstore as well.
It’s a beautiful spot!
What a beautiful building! A little out of my price range but truly beautiful!
That’s a beautiful church/ bed and breakfast. I love the detail. I had to look up Methodist Episcopal Church online because I’ve never heard of it. My father was an Episcopalian minister so I felt slack if there was a sister church for want of another word that I didn’t know about. I of course know the Anglican, Episcopalian, Church of England connection (my Dad had two sabbaticals at colleges in England so even I don’t forget that, ha). I was surprised to see that the early Methodist Church was called the Methodist Episcopal Church. I guess you learn something new every day or at least I do since there is so much I don’t know and I tend to forget what I once knew.
I’m laughing at the comment above, “what’s with it with you two and coffin handles!” I was thinking the same thing… ha ha!
Oh if only I had riches to spare I would definitely buy the old church.
Thanks for this wonderful post, Ellen B! I really need to get over there to look at all the gorgeous old architecture.
Have a fun day.
Cori G.
what a wonderful old building..thanks for showing us these lovely photos!
Annie
ps And thanks for visiting my blog…I have just returned from a lovely visit to family in Melbourne, as you may have discovered.
Absolutely gorgeous. I love the colors, and the architectural details! Thanks for another wonderful tour around Ventura, Ellen.
p.s. I have an email waiting for you in your gmail account. 🙂
I would buy it and live in it!
And the coffin handle thing….I’m thinkin’ that that type of handle started on the church instead of a coffin….hmmmmm.
Ha! Yes—I just showed Jeff those great pictures you took…we’ll take 3!
kidding 🙂 (he said he is limited as to how much he can take from his savings right now with the financial problems the US is in…(joking 🙂
Thank you for your sweet note on the baby! He is a sweetie pie!
Cracking me up! I’m thinking the price will be going down real quick on this baby in this market!
ellen, an absolutely gorgeous church. The colors are so beautiful – pastels. So lovely! 🙂
Wow: I feel so bad for this place. When I came to Ventura Ca. in 1981, this place was a beautiful Wedding Chapel, with all the events. You had to book 6 months in advance. My husband and I got married here June 1984. It was beautiful and the family that owned it did all the planning. The stain glass and family area was beautiful. Its a dam shame that it had to go to a bed and breakfast the church setting was all old table and chair.
I wish the City could have made it into a little muesum of such. Just a shame what might buy it for such a large amount of $. It needs al lot of work and I wonder what it looks like inside, they say its got alot of antique junk in it. To bad, it was beautiful the day I had my wedding there. Truly.