St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church and Joshua Thomas Chapel
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St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church and Joshua Thomas Chapel | |
Location | 9883 Deal Island Road (MD 363), Deal Island, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 38°9′19″N 75°56′50″W / 38.15528°N 75.94722°W |
Area | 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) |
Built | 1850 |
Architectural style | Gothic, Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 90001550[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 1, 1990 |
St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church and Joshua Thomas Chapel is a historic Methodist Episcopal church complex located at Deal Island, Somerset County, Maryland. The complex consists of St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church, an 1879 frame Gothic building; Joshua Thomas Chapel, an 1850 Greek Revival frame structure; and the surrounding cemetery with 19th and 20th century burials and markers. The church features a three-story bell tower. The chapel is the oldest site in Somerset County in continuous use for Methodist meetings, which began in tents in 1828.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Paul Baker Touart (October 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church and Joshua Thomas Chapel" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
External links
[edit]- St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church & Joshua Thomas Chapel, Somerset County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
Categories:
- Methodist churches in Maryland
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Churches in Somerset County, Maryland
- Churches completed in 1850
- 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
- Carpenter Gothic church buildings in Maryland
- Greek Revival church buildings in Maryland
- National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland
- Methodist Episcopal churches in the United States
- Deal Island, Maryland
- Somerset County, Maryland Registered Historic Place stubs
- Maryland church stubs