I think you are right. The First Methodist Church had the steeple, that was removed, at some point. The large square building with the "box" on top, was definitely the Avenue Theater, which was on Long Avenue, down the hill, and across from the church. The "box" on top of the theater housed the stage curtain, when it was raised and lowered. The picture may have been taken from a upper floor of a home on the upper side of Brady Street, near Weber Ave.