Poplar Chapel AME Church

LA 135, Rayville, Louisiana. County/parish: Richland.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 02, 1989. NRIS 89000475.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Poplar Chapel AME Church

Poplar Chapel AME Church was a historic African Methodist Episcopal church near 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".

However, the chapel has been destroyed.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73974617

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