Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Coffeyville, Kansas) Explained

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Coordinates:37.0322°N -95.6172°W
Built:1907
Architect:John A. Simon
Architecture:Romanesque, Late Gothic Revival
Added:July 28, 1995
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:95000943

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church at 202 W. 12th Street in Coffeyville, Kansas, in the original black neighborhood of Coffeyville. It was built in 1907 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

It is a one-story, brick church with elements of Romanesque and Gothic Revival style, on a rusticated limestone foundation.

It was built to replace the congregation's first church, a frame structure from 1882, which the congregation had outgrown.[1]

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  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=95000943}} National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church / 125-1050-017 ]. National Park Service. Michele Risdal . Martha Hagedorn-Krass . May 19, 1995 . December 5, 2017. With .