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Around the 500 block of South Person Street, many buildings still show shingles ripped from the roof, chimneys knocked apart, blue tarpaulin stretched across the damage. Raleigh’s tornado tore through here in April, and among the broken buildings in its wake, it left Gethsemane Seventh-Day Adventist Church – a neighborhood landmark dating to 1920.The white concrete-block church owns a pair of distinctions: It’s one of the first black SDA churches in North Carolina, and it’s built in an offbeat, stucco style with smaller rocks hand-pressed onto each block.

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