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Mary Jenkins Community Praise House

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
88001770

Built
  
c. 1900 (1900)

Added to NRHP
  
19 May 1989

Mary Jenkins Community Praise House

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.

References

Mary Jenkins Community Praise House Wikipedia