Nevada Baptist Church

The building carries a second story of its own. A county-history page counts more than forty windows, every one stained glass, basement included, which kept the interior bright in the early days of electricity. It says the architects were probably C. W. Bulger and Sons of Dallas, a firm noted for more than a hundred Baptist churches in Texas from about 1900 to 1922 and for Westminster College in Collin County. That is the page's inference from the architecture, not a recorded contract. The page presents the attribution as an observation about the building, not a record.

What the plaque says

Nevada Baptist Church Baptist worship services were held in the Nevada area before the 1880s. In 1882, the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church divided its membership to form a new congregation known as Pleasant Hill. In 1890, under the leadership of the Rev. M.M. Wolfe, thirty-five members of the Pleasant Hill Church organized the Nevada Baptist Church. Wolfe served as the congregation's first pastor. Membership during the church's first year totaled eighty persons. The first church building was completed in 1891 and served until a brick structure was erected in 1919-20. Although the sanctuary was damaged in Nevada's destructive 1927 tornado, it provided shelter for an emergency hospital and morgue during the crisis. Over the years, Nevada Baptist Church has played an important and vital role in this small, Southeastern Collin county town. With its emphasis on mission work and community service, the congregation has produced several missionaries from among its membership. Throughout its history, it has continued to uphold the ideals and traditions of its founders. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 8.8 mi
  A small museum in Harry Myers Park that keeps the evidence on Rockwall's rock wall, sandstone dikes that geologists call natural and folk tales call built.
• Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary — 16 mi
  A 289-acre sanctuary in McKinney that Bessie Heard founded at the age of 80, with five habitats, a 50-acre wetland and 6.5 miles of trails.
• Audie Murphy / American Cotton Museum — 17 mi
  A Greenville museum of Hunt County's military heroes, including Audie Murphy, and of cotton, which keeps the engine of what it says was the world's largest inland cotton compress.
• No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum — 23 mi
  A free museum at Terrell's airport where about 2,200 RAF cadets learned to fly between 1941 and 1945, with logbooks, uniforms, letters and original training aircraft.

More markers nearby

• Empire Masonic Lodge — steps away
• Nevada — steps away
• Community Independent School District — 1.7 mi
• Central National Road of the Republic of Texas — 2.4 mi