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===Second building===
[[Image:FirstMethodistPalafox.jpg|thumb|leftright|The church's second home, at [[Palafox Street|Palafox]] and [[Garden Street]]s]]
Construction began on the new church building, a three-story Romanesque Revival structure, in the fall of [[1881]]. For the next two and a half years, the congregation was without a permanent home:
{{cquote|While without a church we worshipped in [[First Baptist Church|the Baptist church]] until we moved into [[Pou's Hall]] ... We worshipped there two years or more, paying $25 per month rent. In the spring of [[1884]] we moved into the basement of [the new] church.|20px|20px|Mary Lucia Richards, "Methodism in Pensacola" <ref>Hoskins, [http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/DLData/WF/WF00000044/file20.pdf p. 81].</ref>}}
