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Grace Heritage Center

church in Texas, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ56607371 ↗
Source-derived summary

Grace Heritage Center (formerly Grace Episcopal Church) is a church building located at 817 South Main Street in Georgetown, Texas, United States. Built in 1881, the building is the city's oldest wood-framed church.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1986, and later removed on February 17, 1999.

Editorial summary

“Grace Heritage Center” enters the record as church in Texas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Grace, Heritage and Center can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1881, 1986, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Grace, Heritage and Center.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Grace Heritage Center” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Grace, Heritage and Center provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56607371. Authority coordinates are 30.636, -97.677. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1881, 1986 and 1999.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Grace Heritage Center”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Grace Heritage Center primary sources, Grace Heritage Center archive and Grace research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Grace Heritage Center”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Grace Heritage Center” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.