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Sacred Heart Catholic Church

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1899. 136 Bevans St.

This 20 x 40–foot gable-fronted church was constructed between April and November 1899 by the area’s farm families. Local stonemason Fred Napier laid the rough-cut masonry walls. Wood-tramed lancet windows and doors with stone head molds contrast with the rough walls. A wooden apse was added at the back of the church before 1906.

A tiny, three-bay-wide Sinclair gasoline station from the 1930s stands across the street. Each bay is capped with red brick arches set into the station’s tan brick walls, and a large red star ornaments the gable. At 118 Bevans, the Mission Theater (1927) has a broad Alamo-scroll facade.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

First State Bank of Menard
Menard Irrigation Ditch
Menard County Courthouse
Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas (Real Presidio de San Sabá)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Sacred Heart Catholic Church", [Menard, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SS37.

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, 420-420.

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