Poplar Chapel AME Church | |
Location: | Louisiana Highway 135, southwest of Rayville, Louisiana |
Coordinates: | 32.3986°N -91.8339°W |
Built: | 1903 |
Added: | June 2, 1989 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 89000475 |
Poplar Chapel AME Church was a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Rayville, Louisiana. Located on Louisiana Highway 135, it was built in 1903. It was added to the National Register in 1989.
It was a four bay basilica style church with vaguely Queen Anne Revival and Romanesque Revival style influences. It was deemed notable "as a rare survivor of a vernacular archetype".[1]
However, the chapel has been destroyed.[2]