Oak Cliff Presbyterian Church

The Rev. W. L. Lowrance organized the congregation in 1890 with fewer than twenty members and stayed as pastor until he retired at the end of 1903, according to a Dallas history blog. Its first home was a wood frame church at Ninth and St. George, the old name for Patton Street. A March 1891 newspaper ad may relate to its construction, and one report said the building was not occupied until 1893. In 1923 the growing congregation outgrew it and moved to Tenth and Madison.

What the plaque says

Oak Cliff Presbyterian Church Founded in 1890 with seventeen charter members, this church has served the community with a variety of worship, educational, outreach, and missionary programs. Meeting in facilities first at Ninth and Patton streets and later at Tenth and Madison streets, the church experienced steady growth. Land at this site was acquired and construction of new facilities began on July 19, 1970. Oak Cliff Presbyterian Church has played an active role in creating new congregations in the Dallas area and maintains a commitment to both foreign and domestic missionary endeavors. (1990)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cedar Ridge Preserve — 6.8 mi
  A 633-acre Audubon Dallas preserve at the western edge of Dallas County, with about nine miles of trails through prairie, woodland and escarpment hills.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 7.8 mi
  A plow-company warehouse of 1903, identified by the Warren Commission as the building Oswald fired from, now a museum on its sixth and seventh floors above Dealey Plaza.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 8.0 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 — 8.5 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.

More markers nearby

• Duncanville — 3.3 mi
• First United Methodist Church of Duncanville — 3.6 mi
• Lisbon Cemetery — 3.8 mi
• John Shelby Wisdom — 4.4 mi