St. Paul A.M.E. Church (Harrington, Delaware)
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St. Paul A.M.E. Church | |
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Location | 103 W. Mispillion St., Harrington, Delaware |
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Coordinates | 38°55′21″N 75°34′58″W / 38.92250°N 75.58278°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1895 |
Architectural style | Gothic revival |
NRHP reference No. | 16000726[1] |
Added to NRHP | October 17, 2016 |
The St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church at 103 Mispillion Street in Harrington, Kent County, Delaware. It is a single-story wood-frame structure with vernacular Gothic Revival features. It has a steeply-pitched gable roof, and narrow pointed-arch stained-glass windows with scissor-like muntins and mullions. It was built about 1895 for a predominantly African-American congregation founded in 1830.[2]
The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "St. Paul AME Church in Harrington added to the National Register of Historic Places". State of Delaware. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
Categories:
- African Methodist Episcopal churches in Delaware
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
- Gothic Revival architecture in Delaware
- Churches completed in 1895
- 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
- Churches in Kent County, Delaware
- Delaware Registered Historic Place stubs
- Southern United States church stubs
- Delaware building and structure stubs