May 3, 2007

In 1839, a group met at the home of Senator Chester Ashley in Little Rock (Pulaski County) and formed the Christ Episcopal Church. The first church building was constructed by the congregation in 1846 on Scott Street. It was destroyed by fire in 1873 and again in 1938; the present structure was completed in 1941. Though many of the church’s records were destroyed in the fires, some documents, such as this 1857 drawing of the woodwork for a chancel in the church, have survived.