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First United Methodist Church

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1892. 369 Hall St.

The church is an L-shaped Carpenter Gothic building with white painted horizontal clapboard walls and a gabled roof of gray composition shingles. The most prominent element is an entrance tower, set into the inner corner of the church’s ell. The three-stage tower has a tall, pointed-arch entrance door, a single lancet window appears on the second stage, and the third stage is wrapped in louvers with a short skirt roof supported on thin brackets with circular cutouts. A tall spire, added later,

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Concho County Courthouse
Indian Pictographs

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "First United Methodist Church", [Paint Rock, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SS32.

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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, 417-418.

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