Bethel AME Church and Manse

Bethel AME Church and Manse
The church in September 2013
Bethel AME Church and Manse is located in New York
Bethel AME Church and Manse
Bethel AME Church and Manse is located in the United States
Bethel AME Church and Manse
Location291 Park Avenue,
Huntington, New York
Coordinates40°52′41″N 73°25′7″W / 40.87806°N 73.41861°W / 40.87806; -73.41861
Arealess than one acre
Built1845
MPSHuntington Town MRA
NRHP reference No.85002490[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 26, 1985

Bethel AME Church and Manse is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church and manse at 291 Park Avenue in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. The church was cofounded by Peter Crippen and Nelson Smith in 1843[2] and built about 1845 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, wood-frame structure that is rectangular in plan with a gable roof and clapboard exterior. The manse was built in 1915 and is a 2-story, wood-frame structure, with a two-by-two-bay square plan.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

References

Media related to Bethel AME Church and Manse (Huntington, New York) at Wikimedia Commons

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Crippen House". 1653 Foundation.
  3. ^ NYS Parks & Recreation (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bethel AME Church and Manse". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
New York State Historical Marker at the church.


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