Typical of many growing church congregations, Ridglea United Methodist church underwent a series of building campaigns between 1943 and 1965. The church site, however, retains a remarkable visual history of all of its sanctuary structures. Although moved . across Locke Avenue, the original 1943 church remains, a simple gabled structure of wood-frame construction. The 1947 Austin stone sanctuary, now used as administrative offices the 1951 education building designed by architect Charles 0. Chromaster, and the 1964-65 limestone church erected by Paschal and Sanders to architectural plans by Preston M. Geren form a stylistically harmonious Gothic Revival complex.
