Hickman Chapel Baptist Church, 1731 Mill Run Road, Mill Run, Fayette County, PA

2010 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry
Significance: The simple one-story frame building was built in 1901. It has a gable roof which is perpendicular to Mill Run Road and rests on block foundation and full basement. The double-door main entrance, with transom above and simple porch, faces east, toward the main road. The slightly sloping 1.09 acre plot of ground overlooks the nearby Youghigheny River Gorge.
Local land owners, M.C. Skinner and Peter Tissue, offered property for a chapel which was to be a mission of the Indian Creek Baptist Church in nearby Mill Run. It was also Tissue's vision to erect a community church. Funds for the construction were gathered beginning in 1899. Actual construction, undertaken mainly by families of the local area, began in 1900.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1683
Survey number: HABS PA-6778
Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial Construction