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Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church and Community House

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
82004749

Phone
  
+1 410-523-7200

Built
  
1898 (1898)

Opened
  
1898

Added to NRHP
  
21 July 1982

Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church and Community House

Location
  
508--516 Dolphin St. & 1206--1210 Etting St., Baltimore, Maryland

Address
  
1206 Etting St, Balti, MD 21217, USA

Architectural styles
  
Gothic Revival architecture, Colonial Revival architecture

Similar
  
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Lovely Lane Methodist, Orchard Street United M, Union Baptist Church, Leadenhall Street Baptist C

Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church and Community House is a historic United Methodist church located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is an 1898 Gothic Revival stone structure of massive proportions. It features sharply pitched gables, a square parapeted 85-foot-high bell tower, lancet windows, and Gothic influenced interior decorative detailing. The Community House is a Georgian Revival influenced brick structure, four stories high and built in 1921. The congregation was organized in 1787 and was highly influential in the antebellum freedom movement, the establishment of the first black school in Baltimore after the abolition of slavery, and the movement to foster the institution of the African American Methodist church. It is known as the "Mother Church" of Black Methodism in Maryland. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, during their formative years, held their meetings at this historic church.

Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church and Community House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church and Community House Wikipedia