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McKINNEY EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Historical marker, 1998

SAINT PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

ORGANIZED IN McKINNEY IN 1876, ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL

CHURCH WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNATED A MISSION BY BISHOP

ALEXANDER GARRETT (1832-1924) OF THE DIOCESE OF DALLAS.

 BECAUSE THE CHURCH OWNED NO PROPERTY, MEMBERS GATHERED IN

OFFICES AND PRIVATE HOMES FOR MANY YEARS UNDER THE LEADER-

SHIP OF PRIESTS EDWARD WICKINS, J. B. FITZPATRICK, AND G. B.

GIBBS. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL WAS ORGANIZED IN 1883; IN 1890 TH

MISSION WAS ELEVATED TO PARISH STATUS. THREE YEARS LATER A

FRAME BUILDING WAS ERECTED ON THIS SITE TO HOUSE THE CONGRE-

GATION. BUILT AT A COST OF $1,350. THE STRUCTURE WAS DE-

SIGNED IN THE SHAPED OF A CROSS WITH AN ENTRANCE ON LAMAR

STREET.

THE FIRST FULL-TIME PRIEST TO SERVE ST. PETER'S WAS THE

REV. H. K. BROUSE, WHO SERVED FROM 1893 TO 1895. HE WAS

 FOLLOWED BY A NUMBER OF DEDICATED RECTORS, BOTH FULL AND

PART-TIME, WHO HAVE BEEN CREDITED WITH HOLDING THE CHURCH

COMMUNITY TOGETHER. IN 1926, ARCHITECT C. W. BENGLE OF DENISON

PATTERNED A NEW CHURCH BUILDING FOR ST. PETER'S BASED ON

HIS OWN DESIGN FOR A DENISON EPISCOPAL CHURCH. CECIL

HIGHT, A LOCAL CONTRACTOR, WAS THE BUILDER.

IN 1959 AND 1960, THE CHURCH COMPLEX SUFFERED THREE FIRES;

ONE DESTROYED THE SANCTUARY. A DALLAS ARCHITECT WAS THE

DESIGNER FOR THE NEW, MODERN BUILDING, COMPLETED IN 1961

FOR $88,000. CHURCH MEMBERS FILLED THE SANCTUARY WITH

MEMORIAL GIFTS.

FROM ITS ORIGINAL MEMBERSHIP OF 35 IN 1899, ST. PETER'S

EPISCOPAL CHURCH AHS GROWN INTO A LARGE PARISH, OFFERING

A VARIETY OF PROGRAMS TO ITS MEMBERS AND THE COMMUNITY.

McKinney

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