895 Oak St., Batesville, Arkansas. County/parish: Independence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 16, 1986. NRIS 86002875.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church at 895 Oak Street in Batesville, Arkansas. It is a single-story sandstone structure, with a gable roof and a projecting square tower at the front. The tower rises in stone to a hipped skirt, above which is a wood-frame belfry, which is topped by a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof. The main entrance is set in the base of the tower, inside a round-arch opening. Built in 1881, it is the oldest surviving church building in the city.
The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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