Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was a historic

African Methodist Episcopal The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology and has a connexional polity. The African Methodist Episcopal ...

church located at 820 Clay Street in

Parkersburg Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia. Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-largest city and the largest city in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna met ...

, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1887 and was a two-story, stucco building in a vernacular interpretation of the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style. It was one of three black churches in Parkersburg and was the oldest black church building in west-central West Virginia. The church was located in a neighborhood of late 19th-century wood-frame houses only a block from downtown. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is presumed to have been demolished or moved since then.

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African-American history of West Virginia African Methodist Episcopal churches in West Virginia Churches in Wood County, West Virginia Demolished buildings and structures in West Virginia Gothic Revival church buildings in West Virginia Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Churches completed in 1887 Buildings and structures in Parkersburg, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, West Virginia {{WestVirginia-church-stub