Although Galveston Island was raised following the Great 1900 Storm and the building of the seawall, Trinity Church was not raised. Rising water from subsequent storms flooded the nave. A capital funds campaign was launched late in 1924 and in 1925 the vestry engaged Stowe and Stowe as architects for the raising of the church. On July 31, 1925, a contract with John Egert was signed by the senior and junior wardens to raise the church edifice “four and one half feet above the present floor level” at a cost of $17,225. This elevation placed the church floor “one foot three inches above the twelve foot grade, or high water mark of the 1915 storm.”
