Quinn Chapel
- Architect
- Henry F. Starbuck
- Year
- 1892
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Chicago, IL
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Quinn Chapel AME Church traces to 1844, when seven people formed Chicago's first African-American congregation as a nondenominational prayer group; in 1847 it organized under the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent Black denomination in the United States, taking its name from Bishop William Paul Quinn. Before the Civil War the congregation's original downtown building served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, sheltering people escaping slavery.
the building
From fire to Wabash Avenue. The Great Chicago Fire destroyed the church's original building, near the present site of the Monadnock Building, in 1871; after years in temporary quarters, the congregation bought its current site in 1890 and built the present structure, designed by Henry F. Starbuck, in 1892.
the style
Starbuck designed the 1892 building in the Romanesque Revival style then common for Chicago's late-19th-century churches.
More on Romanesque Revivalsignificance
Quinn Chapel was designated a Chicago Landmark on August 31, 1977, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, recognized both for its architecture and its history as the building housing Chicago's oldest Black congregation.
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