Hemphill Presbyterian Church

The sanctuary at this corner is decades younger than the congregation. A brick building went up in 1911 on a site bought in 1909, and the church expanded it in 1922 before building the main sanctuary in 1925 and 1926 to designs by Sanguinet and Staats. That sanctuary is a classical composition in red brick with cast stone trim and a pedimented portico, and its interior is largely intact. Additions followed in 1951 and 1960. After membership dwindled, First Presbyterian Church took over operations in 2004 to try to rebuild the congregation.

What the plaque says

Hemphill Presbyterian Church This congregation grew out of a Sunday School organized in 1889 by Mr. and Mrs. Andy J. Chambers. In 1891, an official Cumberland Presbyterian church, known as the Tabernacle Church, was organized with 13 charter members. During its early years the congregation was closely associated with the Taylor Street Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Following a move to Cannon Ave. and Hemphill St. in 1898, the church adopted the name Cannon Avenue Cumberland Presbyterian Church, but has been known by its current name since 1906. The congregation has met at this site since 1909. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 2.2 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 2.5 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 2.5 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 4.5 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.

More markers nearby

• Fairmount-Southside Historic District — 0.4 mi
• Elizabeth Boulevard — 0.7 mi
• Baker Funeral Home — 0.7 mi
• James E. Guinn School — 0.7 mi