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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.]




Reference
St. Louis: Historic Churches and Synagogues

Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church

 

 

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