Rue Chapel AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 709 Oak Street in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1941, and is a rectangular brick church building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a gabled nave flanked by corner entrance towers. Also on the property is the contributing parsonage; a one-story, front-gable brick house of the American Craftsman style dated to the 1920s.[2]
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| Location | 709 Oak St., New Bern, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°6′39″N 77°3′0″W / 35.11083°N 77.05000°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1941 |
| Architect | Lewis, Joseph F.; Becton, Willie |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman |
| MPS | Historic African American Churches in Craven County MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 97000572[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 30, 1997 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ M. Ruth Little (January 1997). "Rue Chapel AME Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
