Mt. Olive Baptist Church (Mullins, South Carolina) facts for kids
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Location | 301 Church St., Mullins, South Carolina |
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Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1922-1926 |
Architect | Ford, Wade Alston |
Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 00000695 |
Added to NRHP | June 15, 2000 |
Mt. Olive Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at 301 Church Street in Mullins, Marion County, South Carolina. It was built between 1922 and 1926, and is a one-story, Late Gothic Revival style brick cruciform building. It has a complex hip and gable roof and features twin corner towers of unequal height, a stained glass oculus above each entrance at the second level, a belfry containing four large pointed arch openings, and a large tripartite Gothic-arched leaded stained glass window flanked by stained glass lancet windows. The church played a major role in the African-American community in Mullins.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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