Wyco Church, also known as Wyco Community Church, Wyco Independent Church, Wyco Freewill Baptist Church, and Wyco Independent Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church located near Mullens, Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was built in 1917, and is a rectangular frame building with a front gable-roof and set a cut sandstone foundation. It is clad in wood clapboard and features lancet windows and a prominent, recessed entrance in the

Late 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 constructed by Coal Baron Major W.T. Tam's carpenters for use by coal miners and their families at the Wyco

coal town A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch, is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to the site to work the mineral find. The company develops it and provides residen ...

. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Baptist churches in West Virginia Carpenter Gothic church buildings in West Virginia Churches completed in 1917 20th-century Baptist churches in the United States Buildings and structures in Wyoming County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming County, West Virginia {{WestVirginia-church-stub