| Marker Number |
8782 |
| Atlas Number |
5001008782 |
| Marker Title |
Mount Vernon A.M.E. Church |
| Index Entry |
Mount Vernon A.M.E. Church |
| Address |
913 E. Calhoun |
| City |
Palestine |
| County |
Anderson |
| UTM Zone |
15 |
| UTM Easting |
251586 |
| UTM Northing |
3517663 |
| Subject Codes |
Methodist (Methodist Episcopal and United Methodist) denomination; African American topics; eccesiastical buildings; Gothic Revial (Architectural style); African Methodist or Colored/Christian Methodist Episcopal; churches |
| Marker Year |
1986 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
Yes |
| Marker Location |
913 E. Calhoun, Palestine |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
Medallion & Plate |
| Marker Text |
Freedmen organized this African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1873. The first sanctuary, a frame building at Mulberry and Birch streets, was shared with a group of Missionary Baptists. In the late 1870s, the Methodists built their own chapel at this site and adopted the congregational name Mount Vernon. The present brick sanctuary, with influences of the Gothic Revival style, was completed in the 1920s. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1986 |
