St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Chandler, Oklahoma)
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The St. Stephen's Episcopal Church at 812 Blaine Avenue in
Chandler, Oklahoma Chandler ()Gordon Whittaker, 2005, "A Concise Dictionary of the Sauk Language", The Sac & Fox National Public Library Stroud, Oklahoma/ref> is a city in, and the county seat of, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States. a ...
(also known as Chandler Seventh-Day Adventist Church) is a historic church building. It was built in 1899 and added to the
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in 2000. It was deemed significant as "the best example of a small, stone
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church building in
Lincoln County, Oklahoma Lincoln County is a county in eastern Central Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,458. Its county seat is Chandler. Lincoln County is part of the Oklahoma City, OK metropolitan statistical area. In 2010, the center of popu ...
. It is located in a residential neighborhood, across from the
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First Presbyterian Church of Chandler, which was built in 1897 and is also National Register-listed. The Presbyterian church was one of few buildings in Chandler that survived a tornado on March 30, 1897. Its National Register nomination in 2000 noted that "St. Stephen's remains in use today because, unlike most church buildings of its size, it has not become obsolete due to either a dwindling or burgeoning congregation, or become obsolete because it became too small for its congregation. The church was owned by the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral until 1946, when it was bought by the Society of Friends. In 1959, ownership changed to the Oklahoma Conference Corporation of the Seventh-Day Adventists." With


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