Name: Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church Address: 225 Bowen Street Year: 1868 Architectural Firm/Architect: unknown Standard Architectural Styles: Romanesque Revival Religious Group: African Methodist Episcopal Ethnic Group: African-American Front facade: Brick, common bond Property Type Codes: Church Designation: National Register of Historic Places Ward: 11 Neighborhood: 1 History: "Quinn Chapel A.M. E., Church is a one-story, rectangular-plan building located in the Carondelet district of South St. Louis at the intersection of Minnesota and Bowen streets. Originally built for use as a public marketplace by the City of Carondelet in the late 1860s, a black congregation purchased it in the early 1880s. The congregation added an entrance tower about 1900, and much interior remodeling has occurred in the recent past." [From the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places as prepared by Ronald W. Johnson, Ph.D., research associate, July, 1974.] |
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