In 1903, the Church of the Nazarene is built on the northwest corner of Main and Ashland. In 1910, the property is sold and the church building removed.
In 1903, the Church of the Nazarene1 is built on the northwest corner of Main and Ashland.2 The church opens with temporary pastor Rev. Thomas Fluck.3
In 1906, Rev P.F. Bressee,4 superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene, gains title to the property.5
In 1910, the property is sold and the church building moved.6
The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism.
The 50-ft by 78-ft property consists of Lot 24 and Lot 25 of Block D of the 1893 Santa Monica Tract.
Thomas Fluck (1845 - 1915). Born in England. The Rev. Fluck comes to the US in 1871 and marries Salina Kick in Chicago in 1874. They come to Los Angeles in 1891. Fluck dies in an automobile accident in 1915.
Phineas F. Bresee, D.D., (1838 - 1915) organized the First Church of the Nazarene in Los Angeles, California, in 1895. He and Dr. Widney served as the first general superintendents as the movement spread from one church to a denomination of churches. He is married to Maria and father to seven children.
In 1906, a new Church of the Nazarene, Santa Monica, is incorporated with Rev. Thomas Fisher, pastor, and Charles Allsman and J. E. Pearsall, as trustees. Towner and Irwin donate a lot on the corner of Michigan Avenue and 19th Street. A building, costing about $2,000, is erected.
The church building is reported to have been moved to 6th and Raymond.