Grace Episcopal Church (Galveston, Texas)

Historic church in Galveston, Texas

Church in Texas, United States

Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church at 1115 36th Street in Galveston, Texas. It was built in 1894 and added to the National Register in 1975.

History

The history of Grace Episcopal Church is traceable to a mission Sunday School founded by the Rectory of Trinity Church in Galveston, which was located for the convenience of suburban residents in the 1840s. In 1876, its members received permission from the rector to establish Grace Episcopal Church. Their first sanctuary was a wooden building at the corner of Avenue L and 36th Street.^[2]

Henry Rosenberg gifted $30,000 to Grace Episcopal Church for a new building. The church commissioned Nicholas J. Clayton to design a High Victorian Gothic church constructed of stone. The old building was moved down the street and the new building was completed in 1895.^[3]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places portal
• Christianity portal
• Texas portal

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Galveston County, Texas
• Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Galveston County

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. "History". Grace Episcopal Church. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
3. Beasley and Fox (1996), p. 172.

Bibliography

• Beasley, Ellen; Fox, Stephen (1996). Galveston Architecture Guide. Houston: Rice University Press. ISBN 0-89263-346-8.

External links

Media related to Grace Episcopal Church at Wikimedia Commons