711 South McDuffie Street
City Directories and History: 1905 – Grace Ep. Church @715 South McDuffie Street, 1909 – Jeter R. Cullen Rev. (Mary), rector Grace Episcopal Ch, r 223 East Morrris Street,
Grace Episcopal was started in 1860 , and is the fourth oldest congregation in Anderson. It was an outgrowth of the Episcopal mission, women’s group having met at the Long Room in the Benson House, an early hotel. Originally, the church was a frame building used for 44 years before constructing the current house of worship in 1904.
Anderson Homes and Landmarks by Anderson Heritage, Inc., 1986
The Anderson Historic District has added information on the city’s heritage and this building. Constructed in the Gothic Revival style in 1904, William Augustus Edwards and Frank C. Walter, architects. The cost of the original building as $8,000.
This was a replacement church, for the original house of worship, designed by the Rev. John DeWitt McCollough for Grace Episcopal in ca. 1860. This building was demolished, to make room for its replacement in 1904, the current building. (J.D. McCollough and His Churches by Judith T. Bainbridge, 2001)
A.E. Holman, Jr. in his Memories of Anderson…. tells a delightful story of how local Priest, Mr. Roddey Reid, (who is incorrectly recorded as Ronnie Reed), who served the church from ca. 1945 – 1950, was always having children with his wife Caroline. Link to a history(s) of Mr. Roddey Reid, who returned to Rock Hill, S.C. and became a very successful business entrepreneur. All Credits: Anderson County Memories and Reflections compiled by R.C. Otter, Friends of the Library – 2004
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