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Object Type |
Property File |
Title |
41-43 Pitt Street (Old Plymouth Congregational Church) / 32 Bull Street |
Scope & Content |
Constructed 1871-72. A group of black Congregationalists left the Circular Congregational Church and worshipped in various locations, including the chapel at the Avery Institute, forming, by 1867, the Plymouth Congregational Church. Backed by the American Missionary Association, the congregation grew slowly. Under the leadership of the Reverend James T. Ford, pastor and teacher at Avery, the congregation purchased a lot at the corner of Pitt and Bull Streets, and built a church and a parsonage. The church, dedicated on March 10, 1872, was a Greek Revival style New England meetinghouse with a steeply pitched gable roof and six tall sash windows on the north and south facades. Only the Pitt Street entry and its roof overhang show the influence of Ecclesiastical Gothic architecture. The contemporary dwelling at 32 Bull Street exhibits the Queen Anne style with a cross gable and a square tower at the corner of the front facade, topped by a bell cast roof. The church moved to Spring Street in 1958. The Charleston Association for the Blind purchased the former church building and used it until 1995. (Poston, Buildings of Charleston.) File contains page from Afro-American Encyclopaedia ... by James T. Haley (1895); photocopy of Sanborn map (1902); Rosen and Associates (engineers) inspection report for 41 Pitt Street (1997). Digital image only. From UNC Chapel Hill "Documenting the American South," https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/haley/ill640.html. |
Subjects |
Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston African American churches--South Carolina--Charleston Church buildings--South Carolina--Charleston Congregational churches--South Carolina--Charleston |
Search Terms |
Pitt Street Harleston Village Churches/Synagogues/Houses of Worship Bull Street |
Physical Description |
1 File Folder |
Object ID # |
PITT.041-43.1 |