Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church explained

Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church
Coordinates:36.0994°N -80.2275°W
Built:1924
Architecture:Classical Revival
Added:January 27, 1999
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:99000060

Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church, originally known as East Fourth Street Baptist Church, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located at 1435 E. Fourth Street in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built in 1924, and is a front-gabled brick church with two prominent domed towers and flanking one-story hipped-roof wings in the Classical Revival style. The front facade features a prominent pedimented porch supported by stuccoed Doric order columns and Ionic order pilasters. The interior is based on the Akron Plan. The building was acquired by an African-American congregation split from the Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1942. The congregation changed their name to Goler Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church in 1953.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Landon Edmunds Oppermann . Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . March 1998. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.