Grace United Methodist Church
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Marker Inscription
This congregation has grown from two earlier fellowships. In 1868 Joshua Addington started a Sunday School, the beginning of the Dallas City Mission. Later the Mission formed Floyd Street Church and in 1880 Haskell Avenue Church was organized. At the North Texas Annual Conference in 1902, the two congregations merged to form Grace Methodist Church. A temporary tabernacle was erected on the back of this lot. In 1903 the first portion of this structure was completed. After remodeling in 1925, the educational unit was added.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This Dallas congregation traces its roots to the years just after the Civil War, when a Sunday School begun in 1868 grew into the Dallas City Mission and spawned two neighborhood churches. At the 1902 North Texas Annual Conference those fellowships merged into Grace Methodist Church, worshiping first in a temporary tabernacle before this permanent sanctuary rose in 1903. A 1925 remodeling added the educational unit, marking the congregation's growth alongside a booming young city.
Why it matters
It reflects how Protestant congregations knit together the social fabric of fast-growing Gilded Age and Progressive Era Texas cities.
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