Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 88001770 | Built c. 1900 (1900) Added to NRHP 19 May 1989 | |
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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 MPS Historic Resources of St. Helena Island c. 1740-c. 1935 MPS Similar Saint Helena Island, Coffin Point Plantation, St Helena Parish Chapel of, Tombee Plantation, Robert Smalls House |
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.
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
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