{"nrhp_refnum":"86002345","name":"Joshua Chapel A.M.E. Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"110 Ailen","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waxahachie","county":"Ellis County","state":"TX","lat":32.381143199000064,"lon":-96.84601888499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Gothic Revival frame church with brick veneer on a raised basement, located at 110 Aiken Street in a residential neighborhood east of the central business district of Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas. It was built in 1917.","why_significant":"The church was designed by noted Black architect William Sidney Pittman. Since its construction in 1917 it has been a prominent architectural, social and religious landmark for Waxahachie's Black population. The congregation was organized in 1876. The reviewer recommended acceptance under criteria A and C, at a state level of significance.","narrative":"Joshua Chapel A.M.E. Church is a Gothic Revival house of worship at 110 Aiken Street in Waxahachie, Texas. Completed in 1917, it is a one-story frame building with brick veneer set on a raised basement, which is stuccoed and painted to set it apart from the body of the church. A hipped roof with gables covers the building, and pediments break through the roofline. A three-bay arcaded entry is flanked by two unmatched towers, with a three-bay porch on brick piers across the west elevation. Buttresses mark the bays along the sides, and the windows are multisash. The design is credited to William Sidney Pittman, a noted Black architect, and George Powell served as contractor. The congregation dates to 1876. Since the building went up, it has served as an architectural, social and religious landmark for Waxahachie's Black community, which is the reason it was listed as a locally important property of state-level significance.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Sidney Pittman (architect); George Powell (contractor)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good; the property is still in religious use as a church.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.078245-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/9690/40969098/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002345.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002345/c1abd18f60-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002345/c1abd18f60-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joshua_Chapel_AME_Church1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joshua_Chapel_AME_Church1.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"75001971","name":"Ellis County Courthouse Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/ellis-county-courthouse-historic-district-75001971/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969098","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Chapel_A.M.E._Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6289719"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/ellis-county/joshua-chapel-a-m-e-church-86002345/"}