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Quinn
Chapel AME Church
  Contributed by Walter Lebrecht, 1930 Plans
for a new church building were completed by the first week of August
1901. The architect was Pierre Lelardoux. The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, August 4, 1901 pg. 4 NEW A.M.E. CHURCH Architect Pierre Lelardaux has shown us the plans of the new African M.E. church to be erected this summer. It will be a beautiful frame structure, 40x75 feet, with all the modern details which go to make up an up-to-date house of worship, with provisions for church festivals and other sacred entertainments. It will be equal to any of our churches in the height of the steeple. Ed Burton has been awarded the contract for the stone foundation. The elders expect the church to cost about $4,000. The African M.E. church has a very fine choir of about 20 voices. As soon as the new church is enclosed, they intend to give a few public entertainments to raise money to finish the edifice. They deserve encouragement, and the Gazetteer has no doubt our people will give them a liberal patronage. The foundation stone was laid three weeks later on Sunday afternoon, August 25, 1901, in the presence of a large crowd of colored people. (The Sunday Gazetteer, Sunday, September 1, 1901, pg. 3) The report of the event suggests that the church was named for Paul Quinn (1788 - 1873), a missionary and Bishop for the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for whom Paul Quinn College in Waco., Texas, was named. The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, August 25, 1901 pg. 4 The corner stone of the African Methodist Episcopal church will be laid this Sunday evening. It will be a very impressive affair. Rev. Dr. Bergen, president of the Paul Quin college, of Waco, Texas, will take part in the dedication. Rev. D.F. Pyle, presiding elder of the Ennis district and Rev. Dr. Harris of Terrell, Texas, will be present. Five o'clock is the hour set for the ceremonies.   Quinn Chapel AME Church History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |