Architect Mulray, Samuel Designated PHMC May 11, 1996 Phone +1 610-376-7555 | NRHP Reference # 79002167 Area 4 ha Added to NRHP 7 September 1979 | |
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Location 119 N. 10th St, Reading, Pennsylvania Built 1837, c. 1867-1869, 1889 Address 330 W Windsor St, Reading, PA 19601, USA Similar Christ Episcopal Church, Mother Bethel AME Ch, Nolde Forest Environm, Daniel Boone Homestead, Genesius Theatre | ||
Bethel A.M.E. Church, now known as the Central Pennsylvania African American Museum, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church at 119 North 10th Street in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was originally built in 1837, and is a 2 1/2-story brick and stucco building with a gable roof. It was rebuilt about 1867-1869, and remodeled in 1889. It features a three-story, brick tower with a pyramidal roof and topped by a finial. The church is known to have housed fugitive slaves and the congregation was active in the Underground Railroad. The church is now home to a museum dedicated to the history of African Americans in Central Pennsylvania.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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