Grace Episcopal Church (Wynne, Arkansas)

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Location614 E. Poplar St., Wynne, Arkansas
Coordinates 35°13′40″N90°47′12″W / 35.22778°N 90.78667°W / 35.22778; -90.78667 Coordinates: 35°13′40″N90°47′12″W / 35.22778°N 90.78667°W / 35.22778; -90.78667
Arealess than one acre
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No. 92000106 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 5, 1992

Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church at 614 E. Poplar Street in Wynne, Arkansas. It is an architecturally eclectic single-story brick structure, built in 1917 for a newly formed congregation. It was built in part with materials donated by the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, which was then on a major depot-building campaign. The church is a distinctive regional example of an English country church, albeit with some Colonial Revival and Craftsman flourishes, and is relatively unaltered since its construction. [2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Grace Episcopal Church". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-11-15.