Moving Star Hall

United States historic place


Moving Star Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

32°41′1.5″N 80°1′27.5″W / 32.683750°N 80.024306°W / 32.683750; -80.024306
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1917 (1917)
NRHP reference No.	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

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Rebecca Starr and Mary Watson (February 1982). "Moving Star Hall" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
^ "Moving Star Hall, Charleston County (River Rd., John's Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved August 1, 2014.