
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.