Gaston Chapel


Gaston Chapel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	100 Bouchelle St., Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°44′51″N 81°41′14″W / 35.74750°N 81.68722°W / 35.74750; -81.68722Coordinates: 35°44′51″N 81°41′14″W / 35.74750°N 81.68722°W / 35.74750; -81.68722
Area	0.6 acres (0.24 ha)
Built	1900
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference #	84000077^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 11, 1984

Gaston Chapel is a historic 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.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Dana E. Mintzer (May 1984). "Gaston Chapel" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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