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Eddings Point Community Praise House

Coordinates: 32°26′36″N 80°32′38″W / 32.44333°N 80.54389°W / 32.44333; -80.54389
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Eddings Point Community Praise House
Eddings Point Community Praise House is located in South Carolina
Eddings Point Community Praise House
Eddings Point Community Praise House is located in the United States
Eddings Point Community Praise House
LocationOn Secondary Road 183, 0.1 miles north of its junction with Secondary Road 74, near Frogmore, South Carolina
Coordinates32°26′36″N 80°32′38″W / 32.44333°N 80.54389°W / 32.44333; -80.54389
Arealess than one acre
Builtc. 1900 (1900)
MPSHistoric Resources of St. Helena Island c. 1740-c. 1935 MPS
NRHP reference No.88001739[1]
Added to NRHPMay 19, 1989

Eddings Point Community Praise House is a historic church located on Saint Helena Island near Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was built about 1900, and is a narrow, one-story gable roofed building of frame construction with the entrance in the gable end. It is significant as one of four known extant African-American praise houses on St. Helena Island, and was a central place in the religious and social life of the black islanders.[2][3]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Eddings Point Community Praise House, Beaufort County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 183, St. Helena Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  3. ^ J. Tracy Power and Sherry Piland (February 1988). "Eddings Point Community Praise House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved 25 February 2014.