Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage | |
Location | 1009 Philadelphia Pike |
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Nearest city | Wilmington, Delaware |
Coordinates | 39°46′37″N75°29′27″W / 39.77708°N 75.49072°W |
Area | 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) |
Built | 1838 |
Architect | Harvey, George; Springer, Lewis |
Architectural style | Queen Anne |
NRHP reference No. | 98001097 [1] |
Added to NRHP | August 28, 1998 |
Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage is a historic Methodist Episcopal church and parsonage located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1838, and is a one-story, stuccoed stone structure with a gable roof. It measures approximately 50 feet by 40 feet, and has a gable-roofed vestibule added in 1893. Adjacent to the church is the parsonage built in 1894. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, four-bay L-shaped frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and features gray-green fish-scale shingles. Adjacent is the contributing church cemetery with burials dating back to 1841. [2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1] It is now part of Bellevue State Park, a Delaware state park. [3]
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage is an historic church and parsonage at 6 Sever Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The congregation, founded in 1866, is one of a small number of African Methodist Episcopal (AME) congregations in eastern Massachusetts, and is an enduring component of the small African-American community in Plymouth. Its church, built about 1840 as a commercial building and consecrated in 1870, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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