| "LOCAL EPISCOPALIANS
TO BUILD A CHAPEL - The Episcopalian congregation of Coleman will erect
a chapel, work on which will begain immediately. The local congregation,
which numbers about twenty-five, have been holding services in an uptown
hall for several years. Before her death, Mrs. E. A. Clow donated
a building site to the church. The lot, a quarter block, is situated
at the corner of Nueces (should read Neches)
and Cedar streets. The building committee, composed of Messrs. J.
E. and R. L. Boog-Scott, J. H. Babington, E. W. Kapper, awarded contract
for the chapel Wednesday evening. W. E. Edgerton will construct the
building, which will cost, complete, in the neighborhood of $1800."
(The Democrat-Voice newspaper, Coleman, Texas,
Friday, December 17, 1915, front page.)
Church of the Holy Spirit, Episcopal Church
taken in 1916
north
and west sides
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south
side - 1916 map
(Note that this map incorrectly identifies the
Church of the Holy Spriit as "R. C. Church" or Roman Catholic Church.
It was an Episcopal Church.)
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"In 1929, the Protestant
Episcopal Church was located on the southeast corner of South Neches Street
and West Cedar Street (this address is now known
as 601 South Neches Street). Rev. Alex B. Hanson was the rector.
He, and his wife Howard, resided in Colorado City. Jack H. Babington
was a lay reader at the Episcopal Church. He and his wife Florence,
were living 3 miles southwest of Coleman." (Coleman
City Directory, 1929 - Hudspeth.)
south
side - 1930 map
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Church of the Holy Spirit
taken about 1935
west
side
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south
side - 1948 map
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The Church of the Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, with a building behind
which housed Sunday school rooms at this time. |
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