Chestnut Street Baptist Church
Appearance
Chestnut Street Baptist Church | |
![]() Front of the church | |
Location | 912 W. Chestnut St., Louisville, Kentucky |
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Coordinates | 38°14′58″N 85°46′1″W / 38.24944°N 85.76694°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1884 |
Architect | Henry Wolters |
Architectural style | Gothic |
NRHP reference No. | 80001598[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 03, 1980 |
The Chestnut Street Baptist Church (also Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church) is a historic church at 912 W. Chestnut Street in Louisville, Kentucky. It was built in 1884 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
It was deemed significant as "a significant example of Gothic Revival ecclesiastical architecture in Louisville. It is also an important part of the history of one of the city's earliest and most important black congregations."[2]
It was designed by German-born architect Henry Wolters. It is an "ornate Gothic Revival structure. The red brick church is richly ornamented with terra cotta. The facade of the structure consists of a central gabled section with two towers."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b Marty Poynter Hedgepeth (August 8, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination". National Park Service. Retrieved February 28, 2018. With four photos.
Categories:
- Baptist churches in Kentucky
- African Methodist Episcopal churches in Kentucky
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
- Gothic Revival church buildings in Kentucky
- Churches completed in 1884
- 19th-century Baptist churches in the United States
- Churches in Louisville, Kentucky
- African-American history in Louisville, Kentucky
- National Register of Historic Places in Louisville, Kentucky
- 1884 establishments in Kentucky
- Jefferson County, Kentucky Registered Historic Place stubs
- Kentucky church stubs
- Louisville, Kentucky building and structure stubs