Third Street Bethel A.M.E. Church
church building in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Third Street Bethel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located in Richmond, Virginia. It built in 1857, and remodeled in 1875. It is a large Victorian Gothic brick building with two-story towers flanking a central gable. The central gable and towers feature Gothic lancet windows.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, with an enlargement of the listing in 2019.
“Third Street Bethel A.M.E. Church” enters the record as church building in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Third, Street and Bethel can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Third Street Bethel A.M.E. Church” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Third, Street and Bethel provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16901587. Authority coordinates are 37.547, -77.436. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1857, 1875, 1975 and 2019.
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