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Mount Zion United Methodist Church, 1334 Twenty-ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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Mount Zion United Methodist Church, 1334 Twenty-ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

description

Summary

See also HALS DC-15 for documentation of Mount Zion Cemetery/ Female Union Band Cemetery.
Significance: This simple brick building with Gothic Revival details is typical of a number of African American churches built in Georgetown during the latter half of the nineteenth century. It houses one of the oldest African American congregations in the District of Columbia. (An earlier structure, built before 1830 and used by the congregation until 1880, was known as a station of the underground railroad around the time of the Civil War.)
Survey number: HABS DC-242
Building/structure dates: 1976- 1884 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1904 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75002051

date_range

Date

1933 - 1970
person

Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Brice, John
place

Location

Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.93809, -77.04493
Google Map of 38.9380912, -77.04493269999999
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