Wesley United Methodist Church (Austin, Texas)
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| Wesley United Methodist Church | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | 1164 San Bernard St. Austin, Texas, USA |
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| Built/Founded: | 1929 |
| Added to NRHP: | September 17, 1985 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 85002281 |
| MPS: | East Austin MRA |
Wesley United Methodist Church is a historic church in east Austin, Texas that has served the Austin community continuously since 1865 and is considered to be one of the leading black churches in Texas. The church was established to serve the freedmen community following emancipation and the end of the Civil War. Reverend Joseph Welch, a white Methodist missionary and Reverend Isaac Wright, a black minister of the Methodist Church North helped establish the church.
The church met in its first church building called Wesley Chapel Church at the southwest corner of Ninth and Neches streets beginning in 1867. The building was a stone sanctuary with a dirt floor. The facility was replaced with a larger, more permanent church on the same site in 1882. In 1929, work began on the present-day facility at 1160 San Bernard Street in east Austin. This building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1985.
