St. James A.M.E. Church

516 N. St., Cape Girardeau, Missouri. County/parish: Cape Girardeau.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 15, 2014. NRIS 13001085.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • St. James Chapel
  • St. James Chapel AME Church

From Wikipedia:

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

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.: 7  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

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