The Restoration of Anna Bell Chapel
Anna Bell Chapel named to the 2024 "Places In Peril" list
Anna Bell Chapel, the 1893 church that served New Haven, Missouri’s Black community for over 100 years, has been placed on Missouri Preservation’s 2024 list of historic Places In Peril. The former AME Church of New Haven has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992. In 2021 the New Haven Preservation Society began a capital campaign to restore the fragile frame building that overlooks the Missouri River at 225 Selma Street. In 2023, the first phase of the restoration work was completed when the church was lifted six feet off the ground to install a new foundation and make repairs to the supporting beams. View full annoucement here.
The donors who made this possible included descendants of the formerly enslaved people who founded the AME church in 1865, and descendants of the German immigrants who donated funds in the late 1800’s.
