First African Methodist Episcopal Church

Henry McNeal Turner, and located at 521 North Hull Street in Athens, Georgia.

[2][3] In 1881, the congregation purchased the lot on N. Hull Street, the present church location.

[2] Louis H. Persley, the first African American registered architect in Georgia, designed the building in 1916.

[2] While the congregation's church building was being constructed in 1916 services were held at Union Hall in what is now the Morton Theatre.

[3] The church had a parsonage located at 147 Strong Street, built in 1921 and demolished as part of an urban renewal project in the 1960s.