African American Church Trivia

When I woke up on Thursday I thought — to the extent I thought about it at all — that I would be in Chapel Hill that evening. However, I needed to get back to Philly unexpectedly.   The only pleasant part of this trip is that now I have a picture of a place that I've been hankering after. 

What I have here is one darn tough building trivia question. This links a heck of a lot of my interests. At right is a picture of the ruins of a school house built in 1838.  Later it was an African American church (and there's a small graveyard nearby). Now the ruins are part of a very small park owned by the township. The church — like many of the nearby barns and houses — was the subject of a famous painter. Just driving along a winding country road on the way to find these ruins, I was reminded again how beautiful the landscape and the buildings in the area are.  It's incredibly easy to see how they inspired art.  What got me interested in this building is some recent writing about this artist, who painted some of his African American neighbors (this neighborhood was once called "Little Africa").  There's also the story — whose bona fides I'm not qualified to speak to — that this neighborhood was a stop on the Underground Railroad.  

Every time I learn more about this artist I am impressed that was more thoughtful and deeper than I had appreciated before.  And maybe I'd add more important than the generally somewhat dismissive assessments of his works from the high art community.

So to get to the trivia part of this, what's the building, where is it, and who's the artist?