Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic

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and

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located at Franklin,

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. The church was built in 1911, and is a one-story, front-gable frame building with a medium-pitched gable on hip roof. It features a simple two-story square tower topped by a square

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and a large projecting semi-hexagonal

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. The associated parsonage was built about 1925. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was listed on the

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in 2015.

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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Churches completed in 1911 African Methodist Episcopal churches in Indiana Churches in Johnson County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Indiana {{Indiana-Methodist-church-stub