- Otterbein Church (Evans, West Virginia)
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Otterbein Church
Location: County Route 87/11, near junction with County Route 5, near Evans, West Virginia Coordinates: 38°49′54″N 81°47′36″W / 38.83167°N 81.79333°WCoordinates: 38°49′54″N 81°47′36″W / 38.83167°N 81.79333°W Area: 1 acre (0.40 ha) Built: 1896 Architectural style: Late Gothic Revival Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 98000286[1] Added to NRHP: April 1, 1998 Otterbein Church, also known as Otterbein United Brethren Church, is a historic Methodist church near Evans, Jackson County, West Virginia. It was built in 1896, and is a single-story frame building sheathed in clapboard with a vertical wainscoting in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It features a square tower with rectangular vents on each side, small brackets, and a hipped-pyramidal roof. Also on the property is the church cemetery dating to roughly 1864.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Katherine M. Jourdan (October 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Otterbein Church". State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/jackson/98000286.pdf. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
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Other lists Categories:- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Churches in West Virginia
- Gothic Revival architecture in West Virginia
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- 19th-century Methodist church buildings
- Buildings and structures in Jackson County, West Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Jackson County, West Virginia
- West Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs
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