title: St. James A.M.E. Church (Cape Girardeau, Missouri)
text: # St. James A.M.E. Church (Cape Girardeau, Missouri)
  
  St. James A.M.E. Church, also known as the St. James Chapel AME Church and St. James Chapel, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal congregation in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It is noted for its historic church, a one-story, stucco-covered brick building with a rectangular plan and a front facing gable built in 1875.
  
  The church features a central square tower added in 1892, with wide overhanging boxed eaves, a centered round window, and a pyramidal roof It sits on a raised basement dug in 1926. It is one of two remaining urban African-American churches in Cape Girardeau constructed during the Reconstruction $Era.^{:7}$ It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
  
  