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Minor Chapel AME Church

church building in Kentucky, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ6869077 ↗
Source-derived summary

Minor Chapel A. M. E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church on the east side of Jefferson Street between Red Row Alley and Reasor Street in Taylorsville, Kentucky. It was built in about 1895 and added to the National Register in 1992.

It is a wood-frame church on a dry-laid limestone foundation.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Minor Chapel AME Church” as church building in Kentucky, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Minor, Chapel and Church.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1895, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1895. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Minor, Chapel and Church providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Minor Chapel AME Church”, the useful work is to connect “church building in Kentucky, United States of America” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6869077. Authority coordinates are 38.033, -85.343. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1895 and 1992.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Minor Chapel AME Church”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Minor Chapel AME Church primary sources, Minor Chapel AME Church archive and Minor research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Minor Chapel AME Church”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Minor Chapel AME Church” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.