Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic

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church at 202 W. 12th Street in Coffeyville, Kansas, in the original black neighborhood of Coffeyville. It was built in 1907 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is a one-story, brick church with elements of Romanesque and

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style, on a rusticated limestone foundation. It was built to replace the congregation's first church, a frame structure from 1882, which the congregation had outgrown. With .

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