The Visitors Chapel AME is a historic church building at 319 Church Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a Three story brick building, designed in a distinctive combination of Classical and Gothic Revival styles by J.H. Northington and built in 1913. The church has a Greek cruciform plan with a dome at the center, with a Classical gable-front flanked by towers with Gothic windows. An

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 ...

congregation is believed to have existed in Hot Springs since the 1870s; this building is the fourth it is known to have built. It is named in honor of the many outsiders who come to worship with the regular congregants. The building was listing on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1995.

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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Neoclassical architecture in Arkansas Gothic Revival architecture in Arkansas Churches completed in 1913 National Register of Historic Places in Hot Springs, Arkansas Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Arkansas 1913 establishments in Arkansas African Methodist Episcopal churches in Arkansas Neoclassical church buildings in the United States {{GarlandCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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