Gaston Chapel

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Gaston Chapel
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Location100 Bouchelle St., Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°44′51″N81°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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "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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