Brooklyn Church and Cemetery is a historic church in Chatham, Louisiana.
Brooklyn Church and Cemetery | |
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| Location | Along Mariah Road, about 5.4 miles (8.7 km) southeast of Chatham |
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| Nearest city | Chatham, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 32°15′24″N 92°22′40″W / 32.25658°N 92.37779°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | 1902 |
| NRHP reference No. | 84001294[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 2, 1984 |
The church building is a plain wood-frame structure built in 1902. It was deemed significant "as an almost perfectly preserved example of an austere turn-of-the-century country frame church. It represents a local North Louisiana unpretentious building tradition. Architecturally speaking, churches of this ilk should be regarded as remote descendants of provincial Greek Revival temple form churches. They are generally associated with the Methodist and Baptist sects and represent a building type which is a vital part of the material culture of the Upland South. But it is an archetype which is rapidly disappearing."[2][3]
The cemetery has been used at least since the arrival of first settlers in the area in 1857. Almost all the tombstones date from c.1860 through the early twentieth century.[2][3]
The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 2, 1984.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ a b "Brooklyn Church and Cemetery" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. 1984. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2017. with two photos and two maps Archived 2017-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b National Register Staff (March 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form: Brooklyn Church and Cemetery". National Park Service. Retrieved June 26, 2018. With five photos from 1983.
