First Presbyterian Church

321 South First Street

A Presbyterian church was organized in Arkansas City in 1873, to be designated as the First Presbyterian Church.

The first meeting place for members as the church was being organized was in a store building at 207 S. Summit St.

The first designated church building was erected in 1873 and used by several denominations until they established their own buildings. It was a wood-frame structure with a steeple at 311 S. First St.

Additions were made to the building in 1882, 1900 and 1909. Construction on the domed sanctuary building at 321 S. First St. began in 1913 and it was dedicated in 1915, with Dr. William Gardner as pastor.

It is a tan brick structure, built in the Greek Revival style, with four Neoclassical columns employed at the church’s east porch entrance.