Gaston Chapel Explained

Gaston Chapel
Location:100 Bouchelle St., Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.7475°N -81.6872°W
Built:1900
Architecture:Late Gothic Revival
Added:October 11, 1984
Refnum:84000077

Gaston Chapel is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 100 Bouchelle Street in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built from 1900 to 1911, and is a brick church building with a high-pitched hip roof and Late Gothic Revival style design influences. It features a Gothic-arched tripartite stained-glass window. It is the oldest extant, and first substantial, African-American church structure in Burke County.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dana E. Mintzer . Gaston Chapel. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . May 1984. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.