400 Walnut Street - Locust Street Historic District - Washington, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 33.367 W 091° 00.641
15S E 673337 N 4269395
This is building is #111 on the NRHP map.
Waymark Code: WMYQ12
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2018
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County of house: Franklin County
Location of house: Walnut St. & E. 4th St., SE corner, Washington
Built: 1891
Original Owner: St. John's AME Church
Current Estimated value: Unknown, now Annex to Museum
"111. 400 Walnut Street, the AME Church, ca. 1890. A brick Center Steeple Church with a
concrete covered foundation, a gable roof, and a denticulated brick cornice. With the exception
of a round window in the steeple tower, the windows and doors are topped with segmental
arches. The 2/2 vertically divided windows and the double front doors with a rectangular
transom are early or original. There is a small shed-roofed frame addition to the side of the
steeple tower, [c]" ~ NRHP Nomination Form
Plaque on building:
ST JOHN'S
A.M.E. CHURCH
Built by the congregation of St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church under the guidance of trustees William Hawkins, Peter Elkins, Emmett Jackson, Charles Taylor, and others. This building served as their house of worship until 2004. In February of 2005, the Washington Historical Society purchased the building and undertook its renovation.
1891Second Plaque on Building:
2007
PRESERVATION
AWARD
Washington Preservation, Inc
"Walnut Street runs north and south from East Front Street to East Eighth Street, but it does not
go through to East Front Street. The portion of Walnut Street within the district runs from East
Front Street to the middle of the 400 block of Walnut Street. Both sides of the street are included
in the district boundaries. Eight of the thirteen houses on Walnut Street within the district are
contributing buildings, one house was previously listed, and all four of the outbuildings within
the district are contributing." ~ NRHP Nomination Form