Holy Cross Mission (Episcopal)

The bishop who dedicated this church in April 1920 had held his office for about seventeen months. Clinton Simon Quin, born in Louisville in 1883, took a law degree there before finishing at the Episcopal seminary in Virginia in 1908. He served parishes at Pewee Valley and Paducah, came to Houston's Trinity Church in 1917, and was consecrated coadjutor bishop of Texas on October 31, 1918. He became the diocese's third bishop in 1928, was known for his youth work and for recruiting young men to the ministry, and retired in 1955. He died the next year.

What the plaque says

Holy Cross Mission (Episcopal) A religious force since 1865, when the Rev. J. M. Curtis and 24 Harrisburg communicants met in a mission called Nativity, changed to Holy Cross about 1875. Numbering from 12 to 50 as the local economy shifted, members-- especially the women-- spent years raising building funds. At last, in 1895, a red brick church with a steeple was erected, facing Erath Street. Although repaired after 1900 hurricane damage, that structure eventually fell into ruin. The present church and parish house were dedicated on April 4, 1920, by Bishop Clinton S. Quin. (1973)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Emancipation Park — 5.2 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 6.0 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.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 6.2 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.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — 6.6 mi
  The oldest art museum in Texas, grown from a 1900 schoolroom art league into a campus of Watkin, Mies van der Rohe and later buildings, with Ima Hogg's Bayou Bend up the bayou.

More markers nearby

• Site of General Offices, Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railroad — 0.3 mi
• Home of Gen. Sidney Sherman — 0.3 mi
• Glendale Cemetery — 0.3 mi
• Old Harrisburg — 0.3 mi