In the News: Five years after fire, historic church set to reopen

December 2, 2015

Source: WWLTV

HOUMA, La. – A newly built historic church in downtown Houma will celebrate its formal reopening to the public in mid-December.

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 243 Barrow St., was built in the mid-1850s as a place of worship for local Christians and as a community-gathering point.

The church was added to the National Register of Historic Sites in 1989. However, it burned down in an electrical fire on Nov. 11, 2010, leaving only a shell of the original structure […]

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