St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Dublin Core
Title
St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Alternative Title
St. James AME Church
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Churches--Florida
African Americans--Florida--Sanford
Buildings--Florida
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Description
View of St. James AME Church from the intersection of Cypress Avenue and East 9th Street. The church itself was founded in 1867 at another location off of Mellonville Avenue. In 1880, the church purchased land at the current location from the Florida Land and Colonization Company, which was operated by General Henry Shelton Sanford. After constructing several temporary structures, the church assigned African American architect Prince Spears to design the current red brick building. Spears created a building with a late gothic revival architectural style. Construction started in 1910 and ended in 1913. Reverend William H. Brown oversaw the project, but died prior to the building's completion. St. James AME Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Creator
Smith, Austin
Source
Original color digital image by Austin Smith, December 19, 2010.
Publisher
Date Created
2010-12-19
Is Part Of
Churches of Sanford Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
285 KB
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.80468, -81.263503
Temporal Coverage
1910-01-01/2010-12-19
Accrual Method
Item Creation
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Austin Smith and owned by RICHES of Central Florida.
Rights Holder
Contributing Project
Curator
Smith, Austin
Vickers, Savannah
Digital Collection
Source Repository
External Reference
Flewellyn, Valada S. African Americans of Sanford. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2009.
American Dreams, Inc. "Florida - Seminole County." National Register of Historic Places.
Rivers, Larry E., and Canter Brown. Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Bailey, Julius. Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Wilson, Dreck Spurlock. African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945. New York: Routledge, 2004.
External Reference Title
a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59879767">Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900
Transcript
ST. JAMES AME CHURCH
FLORIDA HERITAGE
FLORIDA HERITAGE
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
1 color digital image
Collection
Citation
Smith, Austin, “St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church,” RICHES, accessed December 22, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/757.