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Calera Chapel, Mission Mary

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1902; 2003 restored. FM 3078, 2.4 miles west of Toyahvale

The Calera farming community south of Toyahvale built this simple adobe chapel as a mission served by the parish in Fort Davis, thirty-five miles south. The front-gabled chapel has a bell-cote above the door, which is protected by a small shed canopy. The chapel, all that remains of the community, was used until the early 1940s. The Calera Foundation was formed in 2002 and the chapel restored in 2003. During restoration, volunteer workers discovered that the lower two-thirds of the walls were constructed of rubble stone set in mud mortar, with the upper one-third built of adobe. The chapel is open for visitors, weddings, and prayers.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

San Solomon Springs, Balmorhea State Park

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Calera Chapel, Mission Mary", [Toyahvale, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT49.

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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, 471-471.

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