Moving Star Hall
Moving Star Hall | |
32°41′1.5″N 80°1′27.5″W / 32.683750°N 80.024306°W / 32.683750; -80.024306 | |
Area | less than one acre |
---|---|
Built | c. 1917 (1917) |
NRHP reference No. | 82003843[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 17, 1982 |
Moving Star Hall is a historic community building located on Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built about 1917, and is a crudely built, one-story, rectangular, frame, weatherboarded building. It has a low concrete block pillar foundation and a metal-covered gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing outhouse. The building was used by the local African-American population as a "praise house" and meeting place of the Moving Star Young Association, a religious, social, fraternal, and charitable community institution.[2][3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Rebecca Starr and Mary Watson (February 1982). "Moving Star Hall" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
- ^ "Moving Star Hall, Charleston County (River Rd., John's Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- v
- t
- e
- Contributing property
- Keeper of the Register
- Historic district
- History of the National Register of Historic Places
- National Park Service
- Property types
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Logo_of_the_United_States_National_Park_Service.svg/50px-Logo_of_the_United_States_National_Park_Service.svg.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Map_of_USA_SC.svg/100px-Map_of_USA_SC.svg.png)
by county
- Abbeville
- Aiken
- Allendale
- Anderson
- Bamberg
- Barnwell
- Beaufort
- Berkeley
- Calhoun
- Charleston
- Cherokee
- Chester
- Chesterfield
- Clarendon
- Colleton
- Darlington
- Dillon
- Dorchester
- Edgefield
- Fairfield
- Florence
- Georgetown
- Greenville
- Greenwood
- Hampton
- Horry
- Jasper
- Kershaw
- Lancaster
- Laurens
- Lee
- Lexington
- Marion
- Marlboro
- McCormick
- Newberry
- Oconee
- Orangeburg
- Pickens
- Richland
- Saluda
- Spartanburg
- Sumter
- Union
- Williamsburg
- York
![]() | This article about a property in Charleston County, South Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e