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Prince Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (Prince Memorial Colored Methodist Episcopal Church)

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1871. 410 W. Oak St.

Organized in 1867 and renamed in the 1960s, this wooden church has hipped roofs and a three-story square corner tower with a spire. At the base of the tower is a pedimented entrance porch supported on a single corner column. Large gables have pointed-arched windows with curved tracery. Though small, just 21 x 31 feet, the church has a more dynamic massing than found in a typical Carpenter Gothic church. The congregation once included African American cowboy Bose Ikard, who worked for Charles Goodnight on the early cattle drives on the Goodnight-Loving Trail and who settled in Parker County in 1869.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Prince Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (Prince Memorial Colored Methodist Episcopal Church)", [Weatherford, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-WC6.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 246-246.

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