St. Paul A.M.E. Church (Harrington, Delaware)

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St. Paul A.M.E. Church
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Location103 W. Mispillion St., Harrington, Delaware
Coordinates 38°55′21″N75°34′58″W / 38.92250°N 75.58278°W / 38.92250; -75.58278
Arealess than one acre
Built1895 (1895)
Architectural styleGothic revival
NRHP reference No. 16000726 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "St. Paul AME Church in Harrington added to the National Register of Historic Places". State of Delaware. Retrieved February 6, 2017.