Grace United Methodist Church

Grace Church was built as a suburban Gothic landmark in 1903. The National Register nomination says architect W. A. Caan of St. Louis designed an L-shaped building of brick and stone with a tower, four turrets and two projecting gables, and that the first unit cost $55,000. Fifteen stained-glass pieces came from a Kansas City studio, including The Resurrection, The Good Shepherd and Gethsemane. An $85,000 addition in 1925 turned the sanctuary to a square plan. Developer R. S. Munger, a member, was then building Munger Place nearby.

What the plaque says

Grace United Methodist Church 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. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• African American Museum, Dallas — 1.2 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.
• Fair Park — 1.2 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 1.5 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 1.5 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.

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• City of East Dallas — 0.4 mi
• Freedman's Cemetery — 1.2 mi
• Dallas Symphony — 1.4 mi
• Hoblitzelle, Karl St. John — 1.4 mi