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Ward Chapel AME Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	319 N. 9th St., Muskogee, Oklahoma
Coordinates	35°45′16″N 95°22′41″W / 35.75444°N 95.37806°W / 35.75444; -95.37806
Area	less than one acre
Built	1904
MPS	Black Protestant Churches of Muskogee TR
NRHP reference No.	84003338
Added to NRHP	September 25, 1984

The Ward Chapel AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church building at 319 N. 9th Street in Muskogee, Oklahoma. It was built in 1904, three years before Oklahoma achieved statehood. It was added to the National Register in 1984.

It was deemed significant as "one of the oldest remaining social institutions in the black community of Muskogee"; it "is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church and the second oldest black Protestant church in Muskogee". It is a one-and-a-half-story 90 by 44 feet (27 m × 13 m) church, built of brick laid in running bond, painted yellow.

The Ward Chapel congregation was founded in 1883. The 1904 church building "was built in 1904 to accommodate the growing congregation and to serve the spiritual and social needs of Muskogee's black community which numbered over 7,000 at the time of construction."

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ward Chapel AME Church". National Park Service. Retrieved September 28, 2019. With accompanying five photos from 1983

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Muskogee County, Oklahoma
Fort Gibson	Administration Building-Post Hospital Cherokee National Cemetery Commandant's Quarters Dragoon Commandant's Quarters Fort Gibson Nash-Swindler House Officer's Quarters Post Adjutant's Office Post Blacksmith Shop Seawell-Ross-Isom House
Haskell	Nancy Taylor No. 1 Oil Well Site
Muskogee	Bacone College Historic District Central Baptist Church Coss House Escoe Building F.B. Fite House and Servant's Quarters First Baptist Church First Methodist Episcopal Church Grant Foreman House Fort Davis Kendall Place Historic District Manhattan Building Manual Training High School for Negroes Masonic Temple Murphy House Muskogee County Courthouse Muskogee Depot and Freight District Muskogee Municipal Building Patterson House Pre-Statehood Commercial District Railway Exchange Building Robb House St. Philip's Episcopal Church Severs Hotel Spirit of the American Doughboy Surety Building Trumbo House Union Agency US Courthouse Ward Chapel AME Church Welch House
Oktaha	Oktaha School
Rentiesville	Honey Springs Battlefield
Summit	Reverend L.W. Thomas Homestead St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church W.E.B. DuBois School
Taft	Taft City Hall
Warner	Sheltered Shelter District
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Muskogee County, Oklahoma and List of National Historic Landmarks in Oklahoma

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