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06022.DL – This circa 1920 photo shows Bro. Peter Hall and his wife, Essie Brookings Hall, in front of their residence on Water Street. In Charles Town in 1936, the only African-American Pentecostal-Holiness congregation was The House of Prayer. The congregation met in members’ homes for three years. In 1939 the estate of Brother Hall provided part of the funds necessary to purchase a building which was located on the corner of Water and Congress Streets.