Freeman Chapel C.M.E. Church on South Virginia Street is a historic African American church built in 1923-25 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Christian Methodist Episcopal congregation here has roots going back to the Reconstruction era, and the building has been a centre of African American community life in Hopkinsville for a century.
The church is an active congregation and not generally open to casual visitors, but the exterior is worth seeing — a solid brick building with arched windows and a square bell tower, representative of the institutional confidence of Black churches of the period. It stands in a neighbourhood that retains much of its early 20th-century character.