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CURTIS MEMORIAL CHAPEL. Address – Filmore Street. The Curtis Memorial Chapel (formerly known as the Curtis Free Will Baptist Church) is located opposite the former Storer College campus. The Free Will Baptist missionaries from New England came to the south to establish churches and schools for newly freed slaves. For more than two decades, worship services were held at Storer College, first in Lockwood House, and after 1869, in the college chapel in Anthony Hall. The present Chapel was dedicated on May 27, 1896, and continued to provide a place for worship to Storer College students and faculty until 1955 when the college closed. Much of the interior wood work and exterior stone and brick work of the Chapel were done by students from Storer College under the direction of Hamilton Hatter, a native of the county, and a teacher and former student at Storer.