{"nrhp_refnum":"84001688","name":"First Evangelical Lutheran Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2401 Ave. G","address_restricted":false,"city":"Galveston","county":"Galveston County","state":"TX","lat":29.302202745000045,"lon":-94.79436468499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-08-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["European"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick Gothic Revival church at 2401 Avenue G in Galveston, Texas, first built as a frame church in 1868 and remodeled in brick veneer in 1915.","why_significant":"The building represents the long-running German Evangelical Lutheran congregation founded in Galveston in 1850. It shows how the congregation grew: in 1915 the earlier frame church was joined to a former hall, wrapped in brick veneer and given a tower. It was nominated as part of the Galveston Central Business District Multiple Resource Area.","narrative":"This one-story brick church at 2401 Avenue G in Galveston began with a congregation of German immigrants who founded First German Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1850. Before building their own church, they met in nearby Lyceum Hall, which the congregation later bought in 1885. A frame Gothic church was completed in 1868. In 1915 the church attached the hall to the older building, covered both in brick veneer and added a square tower with a steeple. The result is a rectangular Gothic Revival structure with hipped roofs, a small addition at the southwest corner, octagonal buttresses, pinnacles along the sides, and arched openings with leaded and colored glass. A double entrance sits at the base of the tower, and the north facade has a centered entrance with a roundel window. The building is part of a half-block complex owned by the church and surrounded by mixed uses. A newer church was built in 1957, yet the older structure remains in use for church functions.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Murdock (1915)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present condition is good. A new church was built in 1957, but the older structure continues in use for church functions; the form lists its present use as a gymnasium.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.514787-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/9692/40969203/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/84001688.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001688/fcefcbc510-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001688/fcefcbc510-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"i_am_jim","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Evagelical_Lutheran_Church_(1915).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">i_am_jim</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Evagelical_Lutheran_Church_(1915).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969203","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002827"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/galveston-county/first-evangelical-lutheran-church-84001688/"}