Bethel AME Church and Manse

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Bethel AME Church and Manse
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The church in September 2013
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Location291 Park Avenue,
Huntington, New York
Coordinates 40°52′41″N73°25′7″W / 40.87806°N 73.41861°W / 40.87806; -73.41861
Arealess than one acre
Built1845
MPS Huntington Town MRA
NRHP reference No. 85002490 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 26, 1985

Bethel AME Church and Manse is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church and manse at 291 Park Avenue in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. The church was cofounded by Peter Crippen and Nelson Smith in 1843 [2] and built about 1845 and is a 1+12-story, wood-frame structure that is rectangular in plan with a gable roof and clapboard exterior. The manse was built in 1915 and is a 2-story, wood-frame structure, with a two-by-two-bay square plan. [3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Crippen House". 1653 Foundation.
  3. NYS Parks & Recreation (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bethel AME Church and Manse". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2010-02-20.
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New York State Historical Marker at the church.