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Photograph of St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Paul AME Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“Applicable National Register Criteria Cultural Affiliation”

Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for St. Paul AME Church. Machine-read text.

one of 27 National Register listings in Champaign County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

Sources: the nomination case file at the National Archives · the full case file on this site · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 316 E. Market St., Urbana, 43001
  • When was it listed? 1997-09-05
  • Category. building
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97000954 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Storms near this property

60 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Urbana, the town this property stands in, in 72 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 49 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 6 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002LightningUrbana3 hurtA 12-year old boy was seriously injured by a lightning strike. Two other boys with him, ages 8 and 11, also complained of minor muscle spasms in their legs.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindUrbana$100,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed across mainly the northern half of Champaign County.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindUrbana$25,000Several trees and power poles were downed across Champaign County.
May 2000HailUrbana$25,000Large hail fell causing damage to the roof of a business. The hail also dented three trucks and cracked a car's windshield.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindUrbana$20,000At least four trees were downed in Urbana due to thunderstorm winds. Structural damage also occurred to a house.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindUrbana$20,000Trees and powerlines were downed from Upper Valley Pike east to Kennard-Kingscreek Road. A garage sustained major damage beyond repair along Upper Valley Pike.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindUrbana$10,000A house roof was damaged and several pine trees were downed.
May 2011FloodUrbana$10,000Roads were flooded and vehicles were stalled in flood waters due to heavy rain.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindUrbana$10,000Part of a barn roof was blown off and trees were reported down due to damaging winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUrbana$10,000A door was blown off of an airplane hangar at Grimes Field just north of Urbana.
August 1998HailUrbana$10,000Hail up to the size of tennis balls caused at least one broken windshield.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindUrbana$8,000A tower sustained some minor damage. A home on Kennard-Kingscreek Road sustained significant damage from a fallen tree.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindUrbana$7,000Several trees were downed in Urbana.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindUrbana$7,000Numerous trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindUrbana$7,000Trees were downed across town, and a large limb landed on a parked car.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindUrbana$6,000Numerous trees were down and large limbs were down on a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindUrbana$6,000Numerous trees were knocked down across town.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindUrbana$5,000A tree fell onto a portion of a house along East Ward Street.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUrbana$5,000Several trees were downed in the western half of the county.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindUrbana$5,000Trees and power poles were knocked down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindUrbana$5,000Trees and power lines knocked down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindUrbana$5,000Trees and power lines.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindUrbana$5,000Trees and power lines down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindUrbana$5,000Several trees knocked down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindUrbana$5,000Numerous trees downed.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindUrbana$5,000Trees downed, winds reported at 60 mph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindUrbana$4,000A power pole was downed.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Multiple trees were downed.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Several trees and power lines were downed along a portion of Reynolds Street.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Large tree limbs were knocked down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Several trees were knocked down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000A few trees were knocked down.
March 2007FloodUrbana$3,000Several roads were flooded and closed.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Several four inch dimaeter tree limbs were knocked down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Trees and powerlines were downed.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Power poles were knocked down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Several trees and powerlines were downed.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Numerous trees were knocked down.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Numerous trees knocked down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindUrbana$3,000Trees downed.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindUrbana$2,000Trees were downed near Urbana due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2007FloodUrbana$2,000One road was flooded.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindUrbana$2,000Large limbs and powerlines were downed.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindUrbana$2,000A few trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindUrbana$2,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindUrbana$1,000A large branch was downed and caused damage to a house roof and porch.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindUrbana$1,000A tree was downed along State Route 54 in Urbana.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindUrbana$1,000A small tree was snapped in half.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindUrbana$1,000One tree was knocked down over a road.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindUrbana$1,000Large branches were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindUrbana$1,000Large limbs were knocked down onto area roadways.
June 2008HailUrbana$1,000no account filed
September 2006HailUrbana$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindUrbana$250Several large tree branches were downed near Lafayette Avenue.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindUrbana$4Numerous trees downed, some taking down power lines.
June 2025FloodUrbana-High water was reported on several roads in the Urbana area.
March 2020FloodUrbana-High water was reported on a few streets in Urbana, including along Jefferson Avenue and Powell Road.
February 2019Flash FloodUrbana-Several roads were closed due to flooding.
June 2019FloodUrbana-High water was reported over roads.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindUrbana-A large tree was snapped in half.

Every storm recorded in Champaign County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
Urbana Union1862 to 1872

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

From the nomination file

7,283 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

Areas of Significance for National Register listing.) Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of B Property is associated with the lives of persons * C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) XA owned by a religious institution or used for - B removed from its original location. Arnett, Benjamin - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure.

- F a commemorative property. LIG less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. _unknown (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 L State Historic Preservation Office - Other State agency -previously listed in the National Register L Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National - Local government L University - designated a National Historic Landmark - Other - recordedby Historic American Buildings Survey - recordedby Historic American Engineering Record # 1876-1947 1922 1876-1877 Religion Architecture Register Bibilography religious purposes.

Criteria Considerations Architect/Builder Social History individual distinction. Significant Dates Narrative Statement of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria Cultural Affiliation 9.

The whole case file for this property - 7,283 words, 50 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 97000954, 50 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000954 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Champaign CountyAll 27 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.