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Old Fort Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Old Fort Church, November 2010
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Location	37 N. Old Baltimore Pike, Christiana, Delaware
Coordinates	39°40′04″N 75°39′33″W / 39.66786°N 75.65929°W / 39.66786; -75.65929
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	1897
MPS	White Clay Creek Hundred MRA
NRHP reference No.	83001402
Added to NRHP	August 19, 1983

Old Fort Church is an historic African-American Methodist church located on Old Baltimore Pike in Christiana, New Castle County, Delaware. The church was originally built on Schoolbell Road (in Christiana Hundred) near Christiana in 1850. In 1897, it was dismantled and reconstructed on its present site. It is a one-story, three bay by three bay, gable-roofed brick structure. It features modified lancet-type windows that illuminate the main block. The gable ends have various types of decorative wood shingles painted dark green.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Gallery

• View from the south

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Gretchen Fitting; Richard Jett & Valeria Cesna (May 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Fort Church". National Park Service. and accompanying photo

External links

• Historical Marker Data Base entry

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