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Sneed Funeral Chapel (Central Christian Church, Disciples of Christ)

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1905. 201 E. 3rd St.

The simple, tall gable-fronted chapel is built of rock-faced limestone in regular courses. Window and door openings are round-arched. A short square, three-stage corner tower contains the entrance. Its first stage is built of limestone, and the second (louvered) and third (round-arched) are wood-framed with horizontal wood siding. Corner boards are treated as pilasters, with simple capitals. The most distinctive feature of the church is the tower’s roof, a tall polygonal spire with flared bracketed eaves.

Across the street at 401 S. Chestnut Street, the First Presbyterian Church (1960), has a long gabled nave of limestone, a front portico supported by four Tuscan columns, and a wooden three-stage polygonal tower over the west end punctuated with a needle spire.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Sneed Funeral Chapel (Central Christian Church, Disciples of Christ)", [Lampasas, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-LL33.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 282-282.

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