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Mary Jenkins Community Praise House | |
 Mary Jenkins Community Praise House, June 2012 | |
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| Location | On Secondary Road 74, 2.1 miles north of its junction with U.S. Route 21, near Frogmore, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 32°25′47″N 80°33′38″W / 32.42972°N 80.56056°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1900 |
| MPS | Historic Resources of St. Helena Island c. 1740-c. 1935 MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 88001770[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 19, 1989 |
Mary Jenkins Community Praise House is a historic church located on Saint Helena Island near Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was built about 1900, and is a narrow, one-story gable roofed building of frame construction with the entrance in the gable end. It is significant as one of four known extant African-American praise houses on St. Helena Island. The building remains in use.[2][3]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Mary Jenkins Community Praise House, Beaufort County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 74, St. Helena Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ J. Tracy Power and Sherry Piland (February 1988). "Mary Jenkins Community Praise House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
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