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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Lowell Heights-Olivet African Methodist Episcopal Church St. Joseph County, IN Name of Property County and State Section 7 page 6 second story steps in again and features a stone water table. The towers’ parapet is capped with stone. The north and south facades are very similarly arranged with stair towers on the east ends and a projecting, double-gabled bay on the west half. The north bay extends further to the north than the south bay extends from the building. The south façade’s stair tower features an entry on the first story (at grade, photo 0002). The entry features a projecting brick surround and deeply recessed entry with Gothic arched top. The large metal entry door is divided into nine panels and is topped with a wood panel of board and battens. The surround features buttress-like corners capped with stone and a gabled parapet, also capped with stone. The tower has corner pilasters, stepped in at the bottom and top of the second story. A stone sill course/water table is at the bottom of the second story window. The wood window is divided into two art glass sashes with pointed tops. The shaped stone lintel features rounded shoulders shaped with the window sashes. The top of the second story features a stone string course and the tower has a crenellated parapet, also capped with stone, and a low-pitched stone gable. A stone cross is centered in the top of the parapet. The nave is west of the tower. It features two bays divided by a tall brick pilaster capped with stone. Each bay features a large Gothic arched window composed of art glass divided by tracery with similar division as the front façade. Two wood basement windows divided into nine panes is in each bay. The projecting bay with double-gables is in the west half of the south façade (right side of photo 0003). Its east gable is slightly larger than the west gable. The gabled sections are divided by a two-story bay (stairway) with a section of shed roof. The east gabled section features a row of four 1/1 wood windows on the first and second story. The windows feature a stone sill and lintel of soldier brick. A row of three wood windows, divided into nine panes, is in the basement. The east gable features a narrow slit window in the top of the gable. The west gabled section features a row of three 1/1 wood windows in the first and second story. The windows feature a stone sill and lintel of soldier brick. The basement windows has been filled in with brick. The bay centered between the gabled sections features an entry with a nine panel metal door and non-historic gabled metal canopy. A 1/1 window is west of the entry at the landing between the entry and first story, and 1/1 windows with stone sills are in the two landings between the first and second story. The north façade is similar to the south façade with few differences (photos 0004-0005). The east tower’s first story features a pair of wood casement windows composed of art glass (left side of photo 0005). The window opening has a stone sill and lintel of soldier brick. The nave and projecting bay’s gabled sections are identical to the south façade except that there are two basement windows divided into nine panes in the west gabled section. The narrow section that divides the gabled sections has a large entry porch with gabled roof and brick front wall with a steeply-pitched gabled parapet (left side of photo 0004). The porch’s front wall features a large Gothic arched opening and corner pilasters capped with stone. The entry is composed of a pair of metal doors divided into nine panels, side-lites (covered with wood), and transom composed of art glass. Narrow 1/1 wood windows flank the porch’s gabled roof in the landing between the first and second story. The second story features a three-sided oriel bay covered with wood