Old Fort Church
Old Fort Church | |
Old Fort Church, November 2010 | |
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Location | 37 N. Old Baltimore Pike, Christiana, Delaware |
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Coordinates | 39°40′04″N 75°39′33″W / 39.66786°N 75.65929°WCoordinates: 39°40′04″N 75°39′33″W / 39.66786°N 75.65929°W |
Area | 0.4 acres (0.16 ha) |
Built | 1897 |
MPS | White Clay Creek Hundred MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 83001402[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 19, 1983 |
Old Fort Church is an historic African-American Methodist church located on Old Baltimore Pike in Christiana, New Castle County, Delaware. The church was originally built on Schoolbell Road (in Christiana Hundred) near Christiana in 1850. In 1897, it was dismantled and reconstructed on its present site. It is a one-story, three bay by three bay, gable-roofed brick structure. It features modified lancet-type windows that illuminate the main block. The gable ends have various types of decorative wood shingles painted dark green.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
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View from the south
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Gretchen Fitting; Richard Jett & Valeria Cesna (May 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Fort Church". National Park Service. and accompanying photo
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Categories:
- African-American history of Delaware
- Methodist churches in Delaware
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
- Churches completed in 1897
- 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
- Churches in New Castle County, Delaware
- National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware
- Delaware Registered Historic Place stubs
- Northeastern United States church stubs
- Delaware building and structure stubs