Moving Star Hall


Moving Star Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	River Rd., Johns Island, South Carolina
Coordinates	32°40′55″N 80°1′33″W / 32.68194°N 80.02583°W / 32.68194; -80.02583Coordinates: 32°40′55″N 80°1′33″W / 32.68194°N 80.02583°W / 32.68194; -80.02583
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1917 (1917)
NRHP Reference #	82003843^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 17, 1982

Moving Star Hall is a historic community building located at Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built about 1917, and is a crudely built, one-story, rectangular, frame, weatherboarded building. It has a low concrete block pillar foundation and a metal-covered gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing outhouse. The building was used by the local African-American population as a "praise house" and meeting place of the Moving Star Young Association, a religious, social, fraternal, and charitable community institution.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Rebecca Starr and Mary Watson (February 1982). "Moving Star Hall" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Moving Star Hall, Charleston County (River Rd., John's Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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