(First Presbyterian, ca. 1914)

ID: 922 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection ~ Creator: Fred R. Gildersleeve
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The committee overseeing the church’s construction decreed that its “elaborateness [was] not to be exceled by an ecclesiastical structure in Texas” and that it must also be equipped with “every modern convenience.”

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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…