Gothic-Style Church

ID: 921 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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Gothic-Style Church

The church appointed a committee of six men and four women to oversee the construction of a new church in 1911. The committee then contracted University of Illinois Professor F. M. Mann to design an English Gothic-style structure.

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By Amanda Sawyer
First Presbyterian Church of Waco is one of McLennan County’s oldest Protestant congregations, formed several years before Waco’s incorporation as a city. On April 20, 1855, a group of Presbyterians in Waco Village petitioned the Central Texas…