Gaston Chapel

Historic chapel in North Carolina, United States
United States historic place
Gaston Chapel
Gaston Chapel, August 2019
35°44′51″N 81°41′14″W / 35.74750°N 81.68722°W / 35.74750; -81.68722
Area0.6 acres (0.24 ha)
Built1900
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.84000077[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 11, 1984

Gaston Chapel is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 100 Bouchelle Street in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built from 1900 to 1911, and is a brick church building with a high-pitched hip roof and Late Gothic Revival style design influences. It features a Gothic-arched tripartite stained-glass window. It is the oldest extant, and first substantial, African-American church structure in Burke County.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Dana E. Mintzer (May 1984). "Gaston Chapel" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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Media related to Gaston Chapel AME Church at Wikimedia Commons

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