E. High St., Springfield, Kentucky. County/parish: Washington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 10, 1989. NRIS 88003396.
1 contributing building.
Johnson's Chapel AME Church, a historic church on E. High Street in Springfield, Kentucky, was built in 1872 and added to the National Register in 1989.
Church member and builder Wilse McElroy constructed the building for a congregation formed before the Civil War. The site was deemed significant "as an important example of late 19th c. Gothic architecture" and "as an important local black history site with important associations."
The original Johnson's Chapel AME Church building appears no longer to exist. The First Baptist Church of Springfield occupies its former site.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123848938