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Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church

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1941. 620 E. 4th St.

The east side of Pecos was historically the lower-income Mexican American and African American sector of town. The blocks of E. 4th and E. 5th streets between S. Cedar and S. Pecan streets contain a forlorn but architecturally telling array of early-twentieth-century vernacular West Texan buildings, widely spaced in the flat, largely treeless landscape. Originally serving Spanish-speaking Catholics, Santa Rosa de Lima is a rock-built, simplified Spanish Mission–style church, with an arched entrance with prominent voussoirs and a curved gable. The bell tower contains a niche with a statue of Mary. Behind the church and rectory the block is filled out with a one-story, rock-built parish school organized around an interior patio.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Reeves County Courthouse
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse
West of the Pecos Museum (Orient Hotel and Saloon)
Chamber of Commerce (Texas and Pacific Railway Passenger Station)
First Christian Church

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church", [Pecos, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT47.

Print Source

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, 470-470.

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