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Interior of a Sunday school room in Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton where Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis, mother of Anna Jarvis (Mother's Day Founder) taught primary school children.

1. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School Room, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 005822
Title:: Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School Room, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:: 1911
Description:: Interior of a Sunday school room in Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton where Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis, mother of Anna Jarvis (Mother's Day Founder) taught primary school children.

View of the front of Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, now the International Mother's Day Shrine, in Grafton, West Virginia.

2. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 005829
Title:: Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1890
Description:: View of the front of Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, now the International Mother's Day Shrine, in Grafton, West Virginia.

International Mother's Day Shrine.

3. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 005887
Title:: Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Description:: International Mother's Day Shrine.

Church members broadcast over radio station WVVW at Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church (the International Mother's Day Shrine) in Grafton, West Virginia.

4. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church Radio Show, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 006024
Title:: Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church Radio Show, Grafton, W. Va.
Description:: Church members broadcast over radio station WVVW at Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church (the International Mother's Day Shrine) in Grafton, West Virginia.

Ladies Aid Society members in costume sit for a group portrait at Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia.

5. Ladies Aid Society Members in Costume at Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 006025
Title:: Ladies Aid Society Members in Costume at Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:: 1922
Description:: Ladies Aid Society members in costume sit for a group portrait at Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia.

The interior of Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia.

6. Alter in Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 006027
Title:: Alter in Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:: 1911
Description:: The interior of Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia.

The interior of Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church (the International Mother's Day Shrine) in Grafton, West Virginia on East Main Street.

7. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 006028
Title:: Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Description:: The interior of Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church (the International Mother's Day Shrine) in Grafton, West Virginia on East Main Street.

Two West Virginia Transportation Company buses. Drivers are standing with the buses. Mother's Day Shrine visible in the background in Grafton, W. Va.

8. West Virginia Transportation Company Buses on Main Street, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 006475
Title:: West Virginia Transportation Company Buses on Main Street, Grafton, W. Va.
Description:: Two West Virginia Transportation Company buses. Drivers are standing with the buses. Mother's Day Shrine visible in the background in Grafton, W. Va.

Now the International Mothers Day Shrine.

9. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 028744
Title:: Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:: 1908/10/18
Description:: Now the International Mothers Day Shrine.

10. Mother's Day Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 033904
Title:: Mother's Day Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1975-1985

11. Mother's Day Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 033911
Title:: Mother's Day Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1975-1985

The Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church was named for Bishop Edward Gayer Andrews who conducted the formal dedication on March 16, 1873, according to Howard H. Wolfe's 1962 book "Mothers Day and the Mothers Day Church."

12. The Mothers Day Church, Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 037621
Title:: The Mothers Day Church, Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Description:: The Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church was named for Bishop Edward Gayer Andrews who conducted the formal dedication on March 16, 1873, according to Howard H. Wolfe's 1962 book "Mothers Day and the Mothers Day Church."