Moving Star Hall

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]

Moving Star Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	River Rd., Johns Island, South Carolina
Coordinates	32°40′55″N 80°1′33″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1917 (1917)
NRHP reference No.	82003843[1]
Added to NRHP	June 17, 1982

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Rebecca Starr and Mary Watson (February 1982). "Moving Star Hall" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
3. "Moving Star Hall, Charleston County (River Rd., John's Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.