Heights Church of Christ

Finn, born in Bellville in 1883 and raised in Hempstead, started in Houston as a Southern Pacific carpenter and draftsman and spent 1904 to 1913 with Sanguinet and Staats. His first independent job, supervising construction of the Rice Hotel, began his lifelong association with Jesse H. Jones, and by the mid-1920s he was Houston's leading commercial architect. His office designed the thirty-seven-story Gulf Building of 1929, the tallest built in Texas in the 1920s, and, under the Public Works Administration, the Sam Houston Coliseum and Music Hall of 1937. He died in Houston in 1964.

What the plaque says

Heights Church of Christ Founded in 1915, this was the second Church of Christ congregation established in Houston. G. A. Dunn served as minister when the congregation built its first place of worship in 1916. In 1924 noted Houston architect Alfred C. Finn was hired to design a new church structure in the Renaissance Revival style with Georgian Revival influences. A significant element in the Houston Heights neighborhood, the church has established new congregations throughout the Houston area and has been involved in foreign missionary endeavors, as well. (1990)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 3.1 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Rothko Chapel — 4.3 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.
• The Menil Collection — 4.3 mi
  John and Dominique de Menil's free museum in Montrose: a grey-sided Renzo Piano building among bungalows, holding antiquities, Surrealism and art of Oceania under natural light.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 4.6 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.

More markers nearby

• Daniel Denton Cooley — steps away
• Houston Heights — 0.4 mi
• Mollie Bailey — 1.9 mi
• Brown Chapel A. M. E. Church — 2.1 mi