St. Matthew's Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church in Houma, Louisiana, in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. It is noted for its historic church at 243 Barrow Street, which was built in 1892 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

The parish was chartered in 1855. In 1857, Robert Ruffin Barrow donated five lots on Barrow Street, where the first church was built in 1857. In 1888, fire destroyed the rectory and the church was deemed unsafe, leading to the construction of the current buildings 1890–92.

St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (Houma, Louisiana)

References

See also

Finding Aid for St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Records, Ellender Memorial Library, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, La. St. Matthew's Episcopal Church website

St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (Houma, Louisiana)

Episcopal church buildings in Louisiana

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana

Carpenter Gothic church buildings in Louisiana

Churches completed in 1892

Churches in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

19th-century Episcopal church buildings

National Register of Historic Places in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

1855 establishments in Louisiana

Religious organizations established in 1855

St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (Houma, Louisiana)