Sacred Heart Catholic Church and School

Historic church in Texas, United States

United States historic place

Significant dates

Sacred Heart Catholic Church and School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

Sacred Heart Church in 2017
31°45′45″N 95°38′4″W / 31.76250°N 95.63444°W / 31.76250; -95.63444
Area	less than one acre
Built	1968 (1968)
Architect	Nicholas J. Clayton
Architectural style	Gothic
Website	Sacred Heart Catholic Church
NRHP reference No.	79002909^[1]
RTHL No.	8806
Added to NRHP	December 6, 1979
Designated RTHL	1964

Sacred Heart Catholic Church and School is a historic church and school at 503 North Queen Street in Palestine, Texas. Built between 1890 and 1893, the structure was designed by prominent Texas architect Nicholas J. Clayton. It replaced an earlier Catholic church that was destroyed by fire.^{[citation needed]}

It served the railroad workers stationed in Palestine, which had a large depot of the International–Great Northern Railroad. The railway deeded the site to Bishop Dubuis of the Diocese of Galveston. The bricks were locally made from mud from the Trinity River. It is the best example of Victorian Gothic architecture in North East Texas.

Additional plots of land were acquired in the years after the church was built. The diocese added a parochial school and a cemetery.^[2]

It was built in 1968. The church and school were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "History of Sacred Heart Church". Sacred Heart Palestine.

External links

Media related to Sacred Heart Catholic Church at Wikimedia Commons

Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler

Ordinaries

Bishops: Charles Edwin Herzig; Edmond Carmody; Álvaro Corrada del Río; Joseph E. Strickland

Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

Parishes: Sacred Heart Church, Palestine

Education

High schools: Bishop T. K. Gorman High School, Tyler; St. Mary's Catholic School, Longview

Priests

Eduardo Nevares

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