National Register Record for VERNON A.M.E. CHURCH

Historic Name: VERNON A.M.E. CHURCH
Current Name: SAME
Address: 311 NORTH GREENWOOD AVENUE
City: TULSA            County: TULSA
Section: None           Township: None           Range: None          
Description of significance: IN 2005, A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REPORT CONCLUDED THAT THE TULSA MASSACRE WAS OF "SUPREME NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE, PERHAPS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RACE RIOT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES." MOST OF THE HISTORIC RESOURCES DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH GREENWOOD WERE DESTROYED DURING THE MASSACRES AND MANY OF THE RESOURCES FROM THE PERIOD OF POST-MASSACRE RECONSTRUCTION WERE DESTROYED BY URBAN RENEWAL EFFORTS OF THE 1970S. VERNON A.M.E. CHURCH REMAINS A TESTIMONY TO THE RESILIENCE OF THE GREENWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD. VERNON AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AT THE STATE LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE UNDER CRITERIA A, ETHNIC HERITAGE: BLACK, BASED ON ITS ROLE IN UNDERSTANDING RACE RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES UNDER LEGAL SEGREGATION; FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ITS REPRESENTATION OF THE INITIATION AND GROWTH OF THE SEGREGATED COMMUNITY WITHIN THE CITY OF TULSA AS WELL AS RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE 1921 MASSACRE; AND FINALLY FOR SOCIAL HISTORY FOR ITS DEPICTION OF RACIAL INTOLERANCE AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS. CRITERIA CONSIDERATION A IS APPLICABLE AS THIS IS A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION. LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER 08/17/2018.

Type: BUILDING
Historic Function: RELIGIOUS: RELIGIOUS FACILITY
Current Function: RELIGIOUS: RELIGIOUS FACILITY
Area of Significance 1: ETHNIC HERITAGE: BLACK, SOCIAL HISTORY
Area of Significance 2: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Architectural Style: CLASSICAL REVIVAL
Architect: None
Year Built: 1919-1928            Original Site: YES
Condition: EXCELLENT
Restricted: None
Documentation Source: None
Date Prepared: JANUARY 2018