Sam Black Church | |
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| Nearest city | Smoot, West Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°53′55″N 80°37′50″W / 37.89861°N 80.63056°W |
| Built | 1901 |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 99000288 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 5, 1999 |
Sam Black Church, known today as Sam Black United Methodist Church,[2] is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style church located at Sam Black Church near the unincorporated community of Smoot in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
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Sam Black Church, 2017
The historic white frame church was built in 1902 and named in honor of Reverend Sam Black, a circuit-riding Southern Methodist preacher who died in 1899.[3] It is a small one story building with a gable roof. It features a square, open bell tower with a hipped roof. It is located at the intersection of Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 60 on the Midland Trail, a National Scenic Byway.[4]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ County Convention & Visitors Bureau listing for Sam Black Church
- ^ Powell, Bob. "July 13, 1899: Greenbrier Co. Methodist Preacher Sam Black Dies at 86". www.wvpublic.org. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
- ^ Katherine Jourdan (July 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Sam Black Church" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-02.