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Wyco Church

Wyco Church
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Wyco Church, August 2008
Wyco Church is located in West Virginia
Wyco Church
Wyco Church is located in the US
Wyco Church
Location County Route 12/1, approximately 1 mile north of County Route 16, near Mullens, West Virginia
Coordinates 37°35′56″N 81°20′34″W / 37.59889°N 81.34278°W / 37.59889; -81.34278Coordinates: 37°35′56″N 81°20′34″W / 37.59889°N 81.34278°W / 37.59889; -81.34278
Area less than one acre
Built 1917
Architectural style Late Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference # 10000168
Added to NRHP March 31, 2010

Wyco Church, also known as Wyco Community Church, Wyco Independent Church, Wyco Freewill Baptist Church, and Wyco Independent Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church located near Mullens, Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was built in 1917, and is a rectangular frame building with a front gable-roof and set a cut sandstone foundation. It is clad in wood clapboard and features lancet windows and a prominent, recessed entrance in the Late Gothic Revival style. It was constructed by Coal Baron Major W.T. Tam’s carpenters for use by coal miners and their families at the Wyco coal town .

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.



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