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Gaston Chapel | |
 Gaston Chapel, August 2019 | |
  Location within North Carolina  Location within the United States | |
| Location | 100 Bouchelle St., Morganton, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°44′51″N 81°41′14″W / 35.74750°N 81.68722°W |
| Area | 0.6 acres (0.24 ha) |
| Built | 1900 |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 84000077[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 11, 1984 |
Gaston Chapel is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 100 Bouchelle Street in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built from 1900 to 1911, and is a brick church building with a high-pitched hip roof and Late Gothic Revival style design influences. It features a Gothic-arched tripartite stained-glass window. It is the oldest extant, and first substantial, African-American church structure in Burke County.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ↑ Dana E. Mintzer (May 1984). "Gaston Chapel" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
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