Jacob Bice, Ph.D., P.E., is a Senior Associate and Senior Project Manager in Walter P Moore Diagnostics Group. Dr. Bice conducts structural health monitoring and nondestructive evaluations such as GPR, impact echo, impulse response, UPV and half-cell corrosion potential on existing structures. Jacob can be reached at jbice@walterpmoore.com.
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church was founded in the nineteenth century by Reverend Jack Yates, an early leader of Houston’s African American community. Located in Freedmen’s Town, a post-Civil War Houston neighborhood founded by freed slaves, the church was the first constructed by former slaves, with the earliest portion constructed in the 1890s. …