Rue Chapel AME Church

709 Oak St., New Bern, North Carolina. County/parish: Craven.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 30, 1997. NRIS 97000572.

Part of Historic African American Churches in Craven County MPS (NRIS 64500363).

2 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Rue Chapel AME Church

Rue Chapel AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 709 Oak Street in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1941, and is a rectangular brick church building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a gabled nave flanked by corner entrance towers. Also on the property is the contributing parsonage; a one-story, front-gable brick house of the American Craftsman style dated to the 1920s.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717535