New Hope AME Church

The New Hope African Methodist Episcopal
Church is a modest white clapboard building
with a tower topped by a simple steeple and
four small decorative urns at one side of its
entryway. Its main façade features a central
front-gabled entrance portico that leads to
the sanctuary. The New Hope congregation
has owned this property since 1872 when
James “Whispering” Smith, a wealthy white
Buckhead landowner bequeathed three-acres
of his property for use as a church and school
for “colored persons”.