This is the oldest church building in Comanche County and has been in continuous use since its completion. St. Matthew’s exemplifies the nineteenth-century vernacular Southern church house-type. The simple, front-gabled rectangle of horizontal wood siding has four round-arched windows on each side elevation, a louvered cupola mounted above the front door, and a porch with an enclosed pediment.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church", [Comanche, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FC35.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 297-297.
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