Texas's 104 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places

104 Texas churches in the Churches List directory stand on the National Register of Historic Places, and the state's first listing is the register's founding class: San Jose Mission Church in San Antonio entered on October 15, 1966, the day the National Register itself came into existence under the National Historic Preservation Act.

Bexar County (San Antonio) leads with 13 register-listed churches, followed by Travis (Austin) with 12, Dallas County with 8, and Harris (Houston) with 7. Beyond the metros, the list reaches the painted churches of the Czech and German Hill Country settlements and the Gulf Coast's Victorian-era sanctuaries in Galveston, which holds 4 listings.

The complete list of Texas churches on the National Register

The table lists all 104 Texas congregations in this directory whose buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings as of June 11, 2026. Click a column to sort; the county menu filters the list.

When did Texas churches enter the National Register?

Texas listed steadily through the 1970s (23 entries) and peaked in the 1980s with 40, the decade when the Texas Historical Commission's county surveys reached most of the state's pre-1900 building stock. After a 20-listing decade in the 1990s the pace slowed, but it has never stopped: 7 listings have arrived since 2020, several of them historically Black congregations in East Texas documented through recent thematic studies.

Which Texas counties hold the most register-listed churches?

Where the register-listed churches stand: the map

How this list was assembled

The list joins the Churches List directory (23,267 Texas congregations as of June 11, 2026) against the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places database by building location and name. 104 matches hold as of the snapshot date; the earliest Texas church listing dates to 1966. A register listing covers the building, not the congregation, and some listed buildings house congregations younger than the walls. Corrections are applied through the corrections page.

Related reading in The Letter: the San Antonio church guide puts Bexar County's 13 register-listed buildings in city context, the Fort Worth guide covers Tarrant County, and Houston's Baptist grid maps the state's largest church city. The Texas state page lists all 23,267 Texas churches.