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First Baptist Church

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1928, E. W. Van Slyke and Company, with W. W. Whipkey. 301 Chestnut St.

The congregation was founded in 1881 as a mission by the Reverend George W. Baines, great-grandfather of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Civil War–era president of Baylor University. This church, which replaced earlier frame buildings, occupies a site donated by the town’s developer and Texas and Pacific Railway investor Joseph E. Brown. The triple-arched entrance porch of the buff brick Classical Revival church leads to a ground story, and the nave above is illuminated by gently pointed, tall stained glass windows. Van Slyke was a Fort Worth architect.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

All Saints Episcopal Church
Scott-Majors House
Mitchell County Courthouse

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "First Baptist Church", [Colorado City, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SL8.

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, 393-393.

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