St. James A.M.E. Church (Cape Girardeau, Missouri)

	St. James A.M.E. Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	St. James A.M.E. Church, July 2014
Location	516 North St., Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Coordinates	37°18′34″N 89°31′26″W / 37.30944°N 89.52389°W
Area	Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1875, 1892
Architectural style	center steeple church
NRHP reference No.	13001085
Added to NRHP	January 15, 2014

St. James A.M.E. Church, also known as the St. James Chapel AME Church and St. James Chapel, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal congregation in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It is noted for its historic church, a one-story, stucco-covered brick building with a rectangular plan and a front facing gable built in 1875.

The church features a central square tower added in 1892, with wide overhanging boxed eaves, a centered round window, and a pyramidal roof It sits on a raised basement dug in 1926. It is one of two remaining urban African-American churches in Cape Girardeau constructed during the Reconstruction Era.^[2]^: 7 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/13/15 through 1/17/14. National Park Service. 2014-01-24.
^ Celine Finney and Steven J. Hoffman (July 2013). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: St. James A.M.E. Church" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-11-01.

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[nps-1] "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/13/15 through 1/17/14. National Park Service. 2014-01-24.

[DNR-2] Celine Finney and Steven J. Hoffman (July 2013). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: St. James A.M.E. Church" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-11-01.

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