Little is known about this structure. It is the first Flanders church designed during the church building period that concluded his working life in Dallas. There are only two earlier churches, the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas built a decade before and the 1886 First Baptist Church of Lampasas, Texas.
Although the building has been identified as the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, this 1908 postcard illustration identifies the building as the Central Presbyterian Church. Indeed it may have been both. Characteristics of the building tie it to the earlier Presbyterian church and the design, with its' triad of towers is a harbinger of later Flanders churches. It stylistically fits neatly between the earler church and the Central Christian Church of Greenville built shortly after this one in 1899. It was probably located on the northwest corner of Commerce and South Harwood streets and was razed in 1919.
