<p>Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located on SR 1272 in Linwood, Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. The church was founded in 1755, and the current Jersey Settlement Meeting House was built nearby in 1842. The cemetery contains approximately 50 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1772. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stonecutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Mount Ebal Methodist Protestant Church is a historic property of the Methodist Protestant Church located at the end of SR 2518 near Denton in Davidson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1883, and is a one-story, gabled frame building, 36 feet wide and 48 feet deep. The building rests on fieldstone piers. The building had ceased to be in regular use by about 1940, although an annual homecoming takes place in June each year.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Fulton Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located near Advance, Davie County, North Carolina. It was built in 1888, and is a one-story, brick building with vernacular Gothic Revival and Italianate design elements. It features a steeply pitched gable roof, bracket cornices, a large pointed arch window, and engaged five-stage tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Duke Memorial United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church at 504 W. Chapel Hill Street in Durham, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It was originally established in 1886. The congregations growth paralleled Durhams growth as a manufacturing center in the textile and tobacco industries and has maintained a close connection with Duke University (formerly Trinity College). From its beginning, the church has counted among its members many of Durham&#39;s educational and industrial elite. It is named in honor of tobacco magnate and philanthropist Washington Duke and his sons, who were instrumental in the building of the church.</p><br>
<h2>Main Street Church</h2><br>
<p>What would become Duke Memorial United Methodist Church grew out of the original Methodist congregation in Durham. Members of the Durham Methodist church, soon to be renamed Trinity Methodist Church, saw the need for new churches to serve the growing east and west sides of the city. Durham&#39;s population was swelling thanks to the rapid growth of cotton and tobacco manufacture in the city. Tobacco firms like Washington Duke, Sons & Co, and W.T. Blackwell & Co. as well as thriving cotton firms like that of Julian Carr were bringing throngs of new workers to the edges of the city. J.J. Ward wrote of Durham in 1884, “I never saw nor heard tell of a town thriving any faster than Durham.”</p><br>
<p>Maude Wilkerson Dunn, daughter of Durham builder Albert Wilkerson, recalled a meeting between her father and Washington Duke:</p><br>
<p>“Mr. Washington Duke was at our house one day and he said…“We’ve got to build another Church.” The factory was just beginning to go and people were moving in here. From just a mere nothing but a store or two beside the road, it was beginning to become quite a town. So Pap said, “We have Trinity Church.” Mr. Duke said, “Yes, but we’ve got to have one for the masses.” So they began, and Main Street Church was built.”</p><br>
<p>Industrialists like Washington Duke and Julian Carr did not want Durham to be only a wealthy city; they hoped that Durham would grow into a city which also had culture. Durham at this point was an economic boom-town, with the potential to become a rowdy and unorganized industrial city like many others in the American south and west. Thus they encouraged the founding of institutions of civilized society, like churches and institutions of higher education, to accompany Durham’s material growth. The establishment of Trinity College in Durham and the building of this church are two primary examples.</p><br>
<p>However, Durham’s elite were not the only religiously excited members of the community. During the latter half of the 1880s, a series of camp-style revival services were held in and around Durham. They drew very large crowds. Sam Jones, a famous evangelist of the day, publicly converted Durham tobacco magnate William T. Blackwell at one such revival. And, although the vast majority of the community remained Protestant, the first Roman Catholic congregation in Durham was established in 1887. The people of Durham, regardless of social or economic standing, were by all measures very religiously active at this time.</p><br>
<p>In 1885, a few members of Durham Methodist Church formed a building committee to make plans for this “church for the masses,” which was already being called the “West End Church.” The committee included businessmen Washington Duke and J.H. Southgate among others. They approved the establishment of the church and secured some pledges for its construction.</p><br>
<p>On October 10, 1886 the Sunday school officially relocated to the new church. The building, measuring 40 × 70 feet and made of red brick, was located on the southeast corner of Main and Gregson Streets. The land was donated by Washington Duke&#39;s oldest son, Brodie L. Duke. On April 24 of the following year the Main Street Methodist Church was dedicated with Bishop Charles B. Calloway present for the service. Settled in its new space, the church continued to add members. The church directory from 1889 reports that in that year alone 138 members were added, 29 by certificate of transfer from other congregations and 109 by making first-time professions of faith.</p><br>
<p>1892 was a momentous year for both the church and Durham. Trinity College, formerly located in Randolph County, North Carolina, was brought to Durham largely thanks to Washington Duke and Julian Carr. Not long after the colleges arrival in Durham, it became tightly linked to the Main Street Church. Many of Trinity Colleges professors were active members of the congregation. Dr. W. I. Cranford, a very well-liked professor of psychology and philosophy, drew many students and church members to his Sunday school class. Professors J.S. Bassett and R.L. Flowers were active members and Sunday School teachers. Dr. John Carlisle Kilgo, a Methodist minister and member of the Church, became president of the college in 1894. He was a frequent guest preacher and served as a bishop in the Methodist Church beginning in 1910.</p><br>
<p>For the next ten years, the church continued to grow. By 1904, membership was at 640. The church board conducted the business of the church with monthly meetings in the office of W. Duke, Sons & Co. until Washington Duke became too ill to attend. Duke had been instrumental in the visioning and planning for the new church and had remained thoroughly involved until his death in 1905. In many instances when church debt became burdensome, Washington Duke would write a personal check to liquidate the debt rather than have the congregation solicited.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street congregation began a good library for the use of its members. J.P Breedlove, the Trinity College librarian, helped select and purchase books of all kinds with funds from sympathetic members. A room in the back of the church was outfitted with bookshelves, but soon there was not enough room.</p><br>
<p>As the congregation ran out of space for its books, so too did it run out of space for its members. As Durham&#39;s population rose, church and Sunday school attendance followed. Sunday school classes were overcrowded and the sanctuary could not fit all attendees comfortably. It soon became clear that the Main Street Church building, after only twenty years of service, was no longer able to accommodate its growing congregation. The building was purchased by the Durham Christian Church in 1906. The sanctuary was demolished in 1967, but part of a Sunday school building was maintained for some years as an office building.</p><br>
<h2>The Memorial Church</h2><br>
<p>In the fall of 1906 the building committee for the new church purchased the present site of Duke Memorial UMC, on the northwest corner of Duke and Chapel Hill Streets. The land was purchased from a William T. Blackwell, who was then given ninety days to move his house and his fencing. W. H. McCabe, the church treasurer and building committee chair, reported that “It has been decided, to which the city has consented, to open a new street from Duke to Gregson Street in the rear of the church building.” Today, this is Memorial Street.</p><br>
<p>Work began on the new church&#39;s foundation on January 1, 1907. As building commenced, the name of the congregation was changed from “Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South” to “Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South.” On April 28 the church established a contract with Mr. N. Underwood, a Durham contractor. Mr. George W. Kramer of New York City was secured as the architect and produced the schematics for the new building. At the church conference of May 20, 1907, the building committee reported its plans: “the new building shall be of stone, gothic in style, and to cost about $90,000.” James B. and Benjamin N. Duke both pledged $30,000. Large pledges were also secured for an organ and set of chimes.</p><br>
<p>The building was first used for a Sunday service on July 19, 1908, though the service was held in the Sunday school auditorium as the sanctuary was not yet completed. Membership was at 498. It was not until June 2, 1912 that the sanctuary could be used for the Sunday service. On that day, membership stood at an impressive 709 members and almost the same for the Sunday school.</p><br>
<p>As was the case with Main Street Church, Trinity College was a central part of the church. When Trinity College became Duke University in 1924, the tie remained. The presence of faculty was astounding. Presidents J.C. Kilgo, William Preston Few, R.L. Flowers, and Arthur Hollis Edens were all members of the church. The overwhelming presence of university faculty is one example of the churchs importance among Durhams more educated and wealthier residents. But Trinity college students were also present; they overwhelmed the Sunday school. In 1926, the opening of Dukes School of Religion would be celebrated with a formal convocation service at the church. This was not a secular school of comparative religion. Christian hymns like “The Church’s One Foundation” and “God of Our Fathers” were sung, and the Rev. Edward D. Mouzon, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South gave a “charge to the school of religion” on behalf of the church. The pastor of Memorial Church, The Rev. Harry C. Smith, also participated. Over twenty of the churchs pastors have been educated at Trinity College or Duke University.</p><br>
<p>By June 1913, church members held a meeting to deal with the remaining building debt. Much in the spirit of his father, B.N. Duke offered to liquidate the remaining $19,000 of debt if the church members would raise enough to pay the $7,000 in interest and the cost of completing the basement. Later that week, on June 7, 1914, the church was dedicated with now Bishop J.C. Kilgo giving the sermon.</p><br>
<p>James B. Duke died in October 1925. Shortly thereafter the administrative board approved another name change, adopting the name “Duke Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South.” The resolution, made by N. Underwood and seconded by Dr. William Preston Few, cited the large role Washington Duke had played in the building of Main Street Church and the role his sons played in building the new church. It reads in part “through the years since the change of name of Main Street Church to Memorial it has been generally understood as a memorial to Mr. Washington Duke and the Duke family…” On January 8, 1929 B.N. Duke died in New York City. A special train brought his body back to Durham, where he lay in state in Duke Chapel before a funeral at Duke Memorial Methodist Church. His funeral services, “marked by simplicity,” were attended by thousands. The church was filled to capacity. The Washington Post reported that “several of his favorite hymns were sung by a picked choir…and Dr. John R. Stanbury, pastor of the church, made brief remarks.”</p><br>
<p>From 1930-1931 a new elementary building for the Sunday school was built in the same style as the church. In 1939 the church&#39;s name became “Duke Memorial Methodist Church,” with the union of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1939. In 1963 the church began work on an entirely new education building. The groundbreaking was conducted by Barbara Biddle Trent and James Duke Biddle Trent Semans, great-great-grandchildren of Washington Duke. The education building was opened formally on August 23, 1964, and with that the church was made as it exists today.</p><br>
<p>The last change of name came in 1968, to “Duke Memorial United Methodist Church,” as the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Churches joined to become the United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>The congregation is still active and participates in many ministries in the Durham community.</p><br>
<h2>The Duke Family</h2><br>
<p>The church&#39;s new name after 1925 cleared up any ambiguity: this church owed its existence to the Duke family.</p><br>
<p>James B. Duke was said to have remarked “My daddy always said that if he ever amounted to anything in life it was due to the Methodist circuit riders who frequently visited him in his home and whose preaching and counsel brought out the best in him. If I ever amount to anything in this world, I owe it to my daddy and the Methodist church.”</p><br>
<p>Washington Duke took his personal faith seriously, and it motivated much of his philanthropy. In an 1890 letter addressed to a group of black workers, he wrote “I am what I am because God was with me; because God goes before me.” As an embodiment of his faith, he hoped to provide for the spiritual well-being of those who worked in his tobacco factory and the broader Durham community. A feature on Duke in the Durham Recorder on April 16, 1900 reports, “Mr. Duke says that since he was twelve years old it has been his aim to help in making the world better by having lived in it. That giving to the support of the gospel has been a part of his life…He has ever tried to carry the religion idea all the way through.” Washington Duke carried the religion idea through in eminently practical ways, generously giving to churches and institutions of education. He was instrumental in the building of Main Street Church and its operation until his death in May 1905. In the 1889 church directory, six Duke family members were on the roll as members, including James B., B.N., and Sarah P. Duke. Of the seven members of the board of trustees, three were Washington Duke, Brodie L. Duke, and B.N. Duke. Both Washington and B.N. were officers in the Sunday school as well.</p><br>
<p>Outside of the church, Washington Duke made the single largest gift of money to education by one man in North Carolina up to that point with his $500,000 donation to Trinity College. As Durham became a modern city, men like Washington Duke hoped to build a better community by means of religious activity and education. He was lauded for embodying in his personal life the same “old-issue Methodist” values of hard work and personal piety he hoped to promote with his philanthropy. He memorably advised the same group of black workers, “Only by living a God-fearing, honest, sober, and industrious life can you be happy.”</p><br>
<p>Washington Duke&#39;s sons carried on his legacy in many ways. Although the Duke family always made special providence for Main Street Church and Memorial Church, they also gave generously to other congregations, often Methodist churches in rural North Carolina villages. They frequently gave money for the most routine repairs to church buildings, but also to help establish new congregations. B.N. Duke was especially interested in these church starts and expansions. He provided money for at least two other churches in Durham, including Magnum Street Methodist church, and countless others throughout the state.</p><br>
<p>The Memorial Church Messenger from September 1915 reports:</p><br>
<p>Mr. J.B. Duke has recently added another to his many gifts, and this time it is to North Carolina Methodism. It is an annual donation in three parts; the first is fifteen thousand dollars to Church Extension, to aid in building churches at weak points; the second is ten thousand dollars for Home Missions, to help on the salaries of men at weak places; the third is ten thousand for the old preachers who have served their day in the ranks and are not more able to work…Many benefited by these donations will have good reason to thank Mr. Duke.</p><br>
<p>In 1924, James B. Duke established the Duke Endowment with $40 million. This not only established Duke University as it is known today, but he set a given percent of the endowment&#39;s income to be used to meet the annual donation he established in 1915. This included the funding of building rural churches and orphanages in the state. The Duke Endowment continues to support Methodist churches in North Carolina and their clergy as well as a number of institutions of higher education.</p><br>
<p>Their older brother Brodie L. Duke made significant donations of land to both Main Street Church and for a parsonage for the presiding elder of Durham&#39;s district. He also donated land for a no-longer existent church called Cuninggim Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>Generations of Dukes have continued their families support for the church financially and in attendance, including Angier Duke and Mary Duke Biddle, the prolific children of B.N. Duke.</p><br>
<p>Dixon clarifies the role of the Duke family in the life of the church:</p><br>
<p>“Church records contain many references to the Dukes’ interest and largesse...on numerous occasions Washington or James, Benjamin or Mary Duke Biddle (or someone else of Duke descent) opened a checkbook and helped the church meet a crisis.”</p><br>
<p>Even without a crisis, the passion that Washington Duke and his descendants had for the success of this church and others in Durham is clear. The Durham Recorder claimed that Washington Duke was a truly generous man because “he does not always have to be begged and appealed to to aid in a good cause.” Indeed, within Durham, the Dukes proactively supported the establishment of churches and institutions of higher education. But the Dukes were strongly convicted of their Methodism, and Washington Duke and his sons continued to support the larger Methodist Church in North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Duke Memorial United Methodist Church, as it is today, is one very visible example of the Duke family&#39;s commitment to philanthropy and the Methodist Church made manifest.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The building&#39;s frame is supported by steel girders and trusses. The exterior is made of white pressed brick with granite trimming, contrary to the original plans for a gothic structure of stone. It rests on a granite foundation and is roofed with red terra cotta. The style of the building is Gothic Revival, most clearly demonstrated in the stonework around the entrance and the windows. The brickwork of the two four-story towers, however, is in the Romanesque Revival style. One of the towers has an active 10-bell chime.</p><br>
<p>The two-story sanctuary is cruciform and decorated with Gothic Revival woodwork. The ornamental bracings imitate Gothic support structures as they conceal the steel beams. The two subsequent additions, the elementary building (1931) and the education building (1963), are connected to the sanctuary by a breezeway and have the same Gothic Revival exterior.</p><br>
<p>The churchs stained glass windows, installed in 1911, are of note. Bishop John C. Kilgo worked with the firm of Joseph V. Llorens Sr. on the plans. All of the windows, except for one, depict men and women in the Bible and scenes from the life of Christ. The exception is the massive window facing Chapel Hill St. (in the rear of the sanctuary), which depicts John Wesley preaching on his fathers tomb after being denied the right to preach in the Epworth (England) church.</p><br>
<p>In 1970-71, the sanctuary was renovated and a new organ by Walter Holtkamp was installed. In 1982, the carillon tower was renovated. A shop in East Durham reworked the bells and a firm in Cincinnati overhauled the playing mechanism. In January 1986, the church was named to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Emmanuel AME Church, also known as Deliverance Temple Holy Church, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church building located at 710 Kent Street in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The Gothic Revival building was constructed in 1888. The 30-inch walls were covered with stucco in 1962. Both the bricks and land for the church were donated by Richard B. Fitzgerald, a prominent African American brickmaker.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Ephphatha Church, also known as Faith Tabernacle, is a historic Episcopal church at 220 W. Geer Street in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1930, and is a small, one-story, six-bay deep, Gothic Revival-style brick building. It is one of only four churches in the United States built exclusively for a deaf congregation. The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina rented the Ephphatha Church building to another congregation from 1977 until early 1981, then sold the building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the church was purchased by American architect Phil Freelon and his wife Nnenna. It now operates as a 501 (c)3 arts organization, NorthStar Church of the Arts, presenting work by artists of color and those with historically limited access to arts experiences. Their hallmark program is a monthly queer-affirming, inclusive Sunday Service that uses art as a healing modality.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church building located at Fayetteville Street and Durham Expressway in the Hayti District, now a neighborhood of Durham, Durham County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Started soon after the American Civil War by black workers, the Hayti District became a well-developed and self-sufficient black community, complete with a variety of businesses and services, including theatre, hospital and hotel.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1891, by a congregation that had organized in 1869, brought together in meetings in a "brush arbor" organized by Edian Markham, a former slave and AME missionary. After building a couple of wooden structures, the congregation raised money for this brick church, including funds donated by white philanthropists.</p><br>
<p>Edian Markham is buried in Geer Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It is now used by the St. Joseph Historic Foundation as the Hayti Heritage Centre for cultural and community activities.</p><br>
<p>Calvary Episcopal Church and Churchyard is a historic Episcopal church located at 411 E. Church Street in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The church was built between 1860 and 1867, and is a one-story, rectangular Gothic Revival style building. Attached to the church is a Parish House built in 1922, and designed by architect Hobart Upjohn. Located adjacent to the church is an arboretum dating to 1842, that includes number of gravestones. Notable burials include Gen. William Dorsey Pender  and author William L. Saunders .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Tarboro Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Eastern Star Baptist Church was a historic Baptist church located at Church and Wagner Streets in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The church was built about 1875, and was a one-story, Carpenter Gothic style building. It was built by a Presbyterian congregation, then moved to its final location and used by the African-American Eastern Star Baptist Church starting in 1906. It has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Dr. A. B. Nobles House and McKendree Church, also known as the McKendree Farm and Chosumneda, is a historic house and church located near Mercer, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The house was built between 1865 and 1870, and is a two-story, Gothic Revival-style brick cottage. The McKendree Church was built about 1875, and is a simple, one-story frame structure, sheathed in weatherboard.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church on East Battleboro Avenue in Battleboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1891, and is a one-story, board-and-batten frame building with a steep gable roof. It features lancet windows and a tower with crenellated top and pyramidal spire. The church was consecrated in 1896.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located at Lloyd St and Edmondson Avenue in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1871, and is a one-story, irregularly massed frame building with multiple gabled wings, and a corner tower. It is sheathed in weatherboard with abundant wooden decoration. The interior features a large open sanctuary with a dome and oculus above. It was moved from its original Main Street site to the present location about 1926.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church located at 401 Oakhurst Street in Kernersville, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built in 1915–1916, and is a two-story cross-gabled brick building, with Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival style design elements. It has a cross-gable roof, three-stage corner entrance tower, and retains original furnishings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, also known as Old Goler, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located at 630 Patterson Avenue in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built in 1918–1919, and is a rectangular brick building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a gable-front block flanked by two square brick towers and stained glass windows. A two-story annex was built in 1946. In 1942, the Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church congregation split from the Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church, originally known as East Fourth Street Baptist Church, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located at 1435 E. Fourth Street in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built in 1924, and is a front-gabled brick church with two prominent domed towers and flanking one-story hipped-roof wings in the Classical Revival style. The front facade features a prominent pedimented porch supported by stuccoed Doric order columns and Ionic order pilasters. The interior is based on the Akron Plan. The building was acquired by an African-American congregation split from the Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1942. The congregation changed their name to Goler Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church in 1953.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Lloyd Presbyterian Church is a historic African-American Presbyterian church located at 748 Chestnut Street in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built between 1900 and 1907, and is a gable-front, rectangular frame church in the Carpenter Gothic style. It is sheathed in weatherboard and features lancet windows and a small frame steeple, with a bellcast spire and ornamental sawn eave brackets along the top of the tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>St. Philips Moravian Church is the oldest surviving African American church building in North Carolina. The Moravian church was built in 1861 on the east side of South Church Street, near Race Street, in Old Salem, North Carolina. St. Philips was enlarged in 1890 and remained in continuous use until 1952. In 2004 it was restored by Old Salem Museums & Gardens for use as an interpreted building. Currently only worship services are held at the church weekly.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Members of a local black congregation, newly formed in 1822, built a log church south of the 1773 Strangers Graveyard, which had been designated as an African American cemetery in 1816. Between 1827 and 1831, a Sunday school was taught by white Single Sisters, until a state law forbade teaching literacy to slaves.</p><br>
<p>Moravian leaders built a larger brick church to the east of the graveyard in 1861. On May 21, 1865, Rev. Seth G. Clark, 10th Regiment, Ohio Cavalry read General Orders 32, announcing freedom from the St. Philips pulpit. In 1890, an extension consisting of a central hall with a classroom on each side of the lower level and a large room above (which opened onto the sanctuary and could be closed off and used as a classroom) was added to the front of the building.</p><br>
<p>The brick church was referred to as the Moravian "Negro congregation" until December 1913, when at a lovefeast service it was given the name St. Philips by Bishop Edward Rondthaler. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The adjacent 1823 log church was reconstructed on its original site in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Brassfield Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located near Wilton, Granville County, North Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Brassfield Baptist Church was constituted on August 23, 1823, by elders Zachariah Allen, James Weathers and William Worrel. The current historical building was constructed about 1843, and is a two-story, heavy timber frame, Greek Revival-style church building. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Salem Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located near Huntsboro, Granville County, North Carolina. It was likely designed by noted regional architect Jacob W. Holt and constructed by slaves in 1860–1861. It is a one-story, three-bay, heavy timber frame, church building with Greek Revival, Italianate, and Gothic Revival style design elements. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Cemetery in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States, is a historic Presbyterian church complex and cemetery located at 800 and 803 Sixteenth Street in Greensboro. The Federal-style church sanctuary was built in 1827, and updated and expanded in 1919–1920 in the Colonial Revival style by architect Harry Barton . It was expanded again in 1956. Flanking the sanctuary are two-story Colonial Revival-style educational buildings linked to it by one-story arcades. The rectangular two-story Colonial Revival-style manse and garage were added to the complex in 1924. The church cemetery has burials dating back to 1775.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Deep River Friends Meeting House and Cemetery is a historic Quaker  meeting house and cemetery located at 5300 W. Wendover Avenue in High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. The meeting house was built in 1874–1875, and is a rectangular brick building with Italianate style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing "Uppin&#39; Blocks" , cemetery, school house marker , and first meeting house marker .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church was a historic African-American Baptist church located in High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. The Late Gothic Revival-style brick church was built in 1907. It was significantly remodeled, enlarged, and a new facade added in the early-1950s. The church was slated for demolition in September 2013 and was demolished in September 2015.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Tabernacle Methodist Protestant Church and Cemetery is a historic Methodist church building and cemetery and national historic district located at 5601 Liberty Road in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1891, and is a one-story, frame building with a gable roof topped by a belfry. It features Gothic Revival style design elements. The associated cemetery was established about 1822. The parish is now known as Tabernacle United Methodist Church, with its new sanctuary being built in 1994.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Michael Ferrall Family Cemetery is a historic Catholic church and cemetery at 145 S. King Street in Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. The church was designed by noted Philadelphia architect Edwin Forrest Durang, and built in 1889. The church is basically a rectangular gable-front Late Gothic Revival style frame building, 20 feet wide and 37 feet deep. It features a pair of asymmetrical projecting corner towers and lancet-arch window openings. Adjacent to the cemetery is the Michael Ferrall Family Cemetery, which contains the Michael Ferrall Family Vault built in 1859. Previously located on the same lot was the historic Eagle Tavern hotel that was moved in the 1970s to its current location at the corner of King Street and St. David Street next to the Halifax Visitor Center. Both the Immaculate Conception Church and the Eagle Tavern were donated to the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh by Nanny Gary, a great granddaughter of Michael Ferrall. The church is one of only two churches still standing that were built by Servant of God Thomas Frederick Price, the first native North Carolinian to become a Catholic priest.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 404 Washington Avenue in Weldon, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built between 1872 and 1889, and is a rectangular Gothic Revival-style stuccoed brick building. It has a steep gable roof, three-stage bell tower, two-stage buttress with capped pinnacle, and lancet windows.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Kehukee Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church building in Halifax County, North Carolina located about a mile  south of Scotland Neck off NC Route 125. It was built in 1872 and is a simple gable-front frame structure subsequently sheathed in weatherboard. A Gothic Revival style frame tower was added in 1901. Also on the property is a church cemetery established in 1889.</p><br>
<p>The Kehukee congregation&#39;s previous meeting house, at a different site, was the location in 1769 for the foundation of the Kehukee Baptist Association of churches from North Carolina and southern Virginia, and in 1827 of the Primitive Baptist Kehukee Declaration issued by the association. The 1872 site, including the cemetery, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Kehukee congregation</h2><br>
<p>The original Kehukee (formerly also Quehuky) meeting house was built about 1742 by William Surginer or Sojourner (1706–1750), a General Baptist from Burley, Isle of Wight County, Virginia who acquired land in the basin of the Kehukee Swamp, a creek which flows into the Roanoke River, and settled there in the mid-1720s. The church stood near the creek and two miles east of Scotland Neck, on land donated by Surginer, its first minister. About 1755 the congregation adopted practices based on those of the Philadelphia Baptist Association after a visit by two of the latter&#39;s elders, Benjamin Miller and William Van Horne (father of Thomas Van Horne). As the earliest Baptist church in the region, Kehukee was direct or indirect mother church of many others. It was the founding site of the Kehukee Association in 1769, but not the leading church within that association.</p><br>
<p>As a subsidiary branch of the Kehukee congregation, a "new meeting house" was established on Fishing Creek (not to be confused with Lower Fishing Creek church, founded by Charles Daniel). It was sometimes called "Cottens meeting house", and later "Lawrences meeting house" after elder Joshua Lawrence. By 1803 "deaths, excommunications, and removals" had reduced the membership of the "old meeting house" at Kehukee to much less than that at Fishing Creek, In 1806 the association recognised Lawrence&#39;s Meeting House as a separate member church.</p><br>
<p>The Kehukee church had no minister from 1830 to 1860, when elder John W. Stamper took over.</p><br>
<p>The addition of the steeple to Kehukee Primitive Baptist Church in 1901 is ascribed to John Coughenour, a sawmill owner who lived within sight of the church and preferred the steepled designs of his native Pennsylvania. Church membership declined from 62 in 1905 to 40 in 1919, and steadily thereafter. The last member, Lena Andrews Shackell, died in 1979 aged 102, and the last regular church meeting was held in 1981. The property reverted to the Kehukee Association, which still occasionally used the building for meetings. Later it was sold to a local resident who had already been volunteering in its upkeep.</p><br>
<h2>Kehukee Association</h2><br>
<p>The Kehukee Association was formed at the Kehukee church, probably in 1769,) in Halifax, Edgecombe, Warren, Bertie, and Camden counties. Dozens more churches from surrounding areas joined in subsequent decades. Some of these later endorsed Free Will Baptism and left the association. Provincial North Carolinas Regulator Insurrection (1768–1771) devastated the western base of Shubal Stearns Sandy Creek Association, whose few churches in the province&#39;s east asked to join Kehukee instead. Some of the old Kehukee Regulars accepted affiliation of Separatists without requiring re-baptism, precipitating a split in 1775 between these "United Baptists" and the hardline Regulars. In 1777, ten churches of the Regular Baptist faction made a confession of faith which was implicitly endorsed after the reunification.</p><br>
<p>Sometimes the Virginia and North Carolina member churches respectively met separately from the full conference of all churches, and in 1790 the two states permanently split amicably, the Carolina group regaining the name Kehukee Association while the Virginia one took the name Virginia Portsmouth Association. In 1793, the Neuse Baptist Association, comprising the churches south of the Tar River, was split off for similar reasons of convenience. In 1803, there were 31 member churches in the Kehukee Association, most being members of one of its four regional "Union Meetings", namely east of Chowan River, Bertie, Flat Swamp, and Swift Creek, the last including Kehukee church itself. In 1806 there was a third split, the churches on the right bank of the Roanoke seceding as the Chowan Association.</p><br>
<p>In the early 19th century, Joshua Lawrence of the Kehukee Association was a leader of the Primitive Baptist movement, which opposed the General Baptist involvement in mission boards, tract societies, and temperance societies. In August 1826 Lawrence prepared a "Declaration of the Reformed Baptist Churches in North Carolina", which was published in succeeding months and debated by Kehukee and its sibling associations. Kehukee&#39;s 1826 conference voted to send it to the member churches for consideration,</p><br>
<p>Despite scattered earlier smaller-scale incidents, the Kehukee Declaration is considered by many historians to mark the birth of Primitive Baptism. Alexander Campbell endorsed the declaration despite later evincing support for missions.</p><br>
<p>At its 1861 conference the Kehukee Association ordered a day of fasting and prayer to mark the Civil War. A similar resolution in 1862 was not carried out due to the disruption of Union Army occupation. The association&#39;s 1886 history claimed that Primitive Baptists were the only Protestant denomination with no ill will between its Southern and Northern members — the former having joined the Confederate Army while the latter stayed out of the Union Army. The association grew from 37 congregations in 1860 with 1,494 members, to a peak of 41 with 2,067 in 1879. It fell to 38 with 1,258 in 1919 and 26 with 1,135 in 1926.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina, United States. The congregation was founded in February 1833 by a number of prominent citizens including State Senator Simmons Baker. It was built in 1855, and is a rectangular Gothic Revival style brick building. Its design is attributed to noted New York architect Frank Wills. It has a gable roof, front central tower, and lancet windows. The church was rebuilt after it burned in 1885.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Whitaker&#39;s Chapel is a historic chapel in Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina. The chapel was originally an Anglican chapel, but was later used by Methodists. It was built about 1828, and is a transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame building. The original section measures 26 feet by 36 feet. It was moved to its present site in 1880–1881, and a vestibule and chancel extension were added sometime after. The chapel was restored in 1965. The adjacent church cemetery was established in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>WhitakersChapel 6037.jpgHistorical marker</p><br>
<p>Summerville Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located near Lillington, Harnett County, North Carolina. The original church was built in 1811, burned down due to being struck by lightning, and was rebuilt in 1848. It is a simple rectangular frame building with Greek Revival and Gothic Revival design elements. The adjacent cemetery includes approximately 150 burial plots and a fine collection of mid and late-19th century markers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Mills River Chapel, also known as Mills River United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist chapel located near Mills River, Henderson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1860–1861, and is a one-story, rectangular, vernacular Greek Revival-style church. It features a front portico with four, square, recessed panel wooden columns. Adjacent to the church is the contributing church cemetery, with gravestones dating from as early as 1824.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Session House and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church, session house, and cemetery located in Chambersburg Township, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1853, and is a one-story, three bay by five bay, rectangular vernacular Greek Revival style frame church. It has a pedimented, temple form, front gable roof and an unusual front recessed balcony. It is the oldest church building in Iredell County. Also on the property is the contributing session house, also built in 1853, and church cemetery with about 200 gravestones.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bethesda Presbyterian Church was organized on August 23, 1847 near Amity Hill in Iredell County. The original fourteen members of the church had come from the Third Creek, Back Creek, Thyatira, and Fourth Creek Presbyterian churches in Iredell and Rowan Counties. The first pastor in 1848 was the Rev. Thomas E. Davis. Until the first building was built, the congregation met in brush arbors and a nearby school house. The membership was 85 in 1855, including 46 white, 36 slave, and three free black members. Initially, slaves and black members sat in the balcony of the church. The church was still in use in 2022.</p><br>
<p>Northeast of the church building is the cemetery existing in an open field with no fencing. The cemetery contains roughly 200 gravestones from the 19th-century.</p><br>
<p>Snow Creek Methodist Church and Burying Ground is a historic Methodist church building and cemetery located about 10 miles north of Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. The church was established in 1801. The existing church building was built in 1884–1885, and is a one-story, one bay by four bay, rectangular frame church in the late Greek Revival style. It has a steep gable roof and vestibule added in the mid-20th century. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery, which dates from 1780. Graves in the cemetery include that of William Sharpe.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Snow Creek Methodist Church was established in 1801 during the Great Revival Period. The burial ground has been there since the 1780s. The church that became Snow Creek Methodist was originally known as King&#39;s Methodist-Episcopal Meeting House. The land for the church was deeded to the church by William Sharpe in 1806.</p><br>
<p>Key Memorial Chapel, formerly the parish church of Saint Philip the Apostle, is a historic Catholic chapel located at 150 E. Sharpe Street in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. It is within the Diocese of Charlotte. It was built in 1898, and is a small one-story, two bay by four bay, Late Gothic Revival-style brick building. It features a large, pointed arch stained glass window and a two-story tower with crenellated parapet. It was abandoned by 1976 when the parish was moved to its current location in Statesville, and the chapel was adaptively reused as a law office.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Ebenezer Academy, Bethany Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic school building, Presbyterian church, and cemetery located six miles north of Statesville in Bethany Township, Iredell County, North Carolina. The log building was constructed in 1823 and housed Ebenezer Academy. The church building was built about 1855, and is a one-story, three bay by five bay, vernacular Greek Revival style frame building with a low gable roof. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery with burials dating to about 1785.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Bethany Presbyterian Church and cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The Bethany Presbyterian Church was an off-shoot of the Fourth Creek Congregation, located about six miles north of Statesville, North Carolina. After William Sharpe created his map of the Fourth Creek Congregation in 1773, it was decided to create two additional church congregations--Concord Presbyterian Church and Bethany Presbyterian Church. Members of the Bethany congregation were organized in 1775 and built the initial church building in 1777 along Fifth Creek north of the Fourth Creek Congregation. Dr. James Hall was appointed the pastor of all three churches on April 8, 1778. Dr. Hall lived in the area of the Bethany Church. After serving the three churches for 12 years, he decide to devote himself to Bethany, where he served for an additional 26 years and retired as pastor in 1816.</p><br>
<p>The first black Presbyterian church in Iredell County was organized at Bethany by Rev. Murkland in October 1866. It was named Freedom Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>The existing Bethany Presbyterian Church was built in about 1855 to replace the one built in 1777. While it has undergone remodeling and additions, the exterior is similar to the initial building. The cemetery includes burials of many of the founding members.</p><br>
<h2>Ebenezer Academy</h2><br>
<p>Ebenezer Academy was founded as a preparatory school by Presbyterian leaders in Iredell County in 1822. It was chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly. Several nephews of James Hall, an early Presbyterian scholar and founder of Clio&#39;s Nursery in Iredell County that closed in 1787, were the first principals and teachers.</p><br>
<p>The curriculum at Ebenezer focused on English, grammar, and geography. An 1823 newspaper advertisement for the school stated "all branches of education required for admission into college, will here be taught. The Academy is in a rural situation, six miles from Statesville, so that students will be measurably free from temptations to vice." Notable alumni included Thomas L. Clingman and Joseph Pearson Caldwell. The academy closed temporarily in 1856, due to the death of the principal James Crawford and lack of funding. It was reopened after the USA Civil War as a subscription school. The school was closed in 1903 after Iredell County public schools were built.</p><br>
<p>Damascus Baptist Church Arbor is a historic Baptist church arbor located in Sharpesburg Township south of Love Valley, North Carolina, United States. It was constructed in 1855, and is an open rectangular structure measuring 35 feet by 55 feet. The Damascus Baptist Church Arbor continues to be used for brush arbor revivals. It has a gable-on-hip roof and hand hewn, pegged frame, log rafters. The arbor is part of a Damascus Baptist Church complex that includes a church , education building, and cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Location and history</h2><br>
<p>The Damascus Baptist Church Arbor, church, and cemetery are located in rural northwest Iredell County, North Carolina. Snow Creek and the town of Love Valley, North Carolina are nearby. The church was built between 1907 and 1909 and is east of the arbor. The cemetery is located southwest of the arbor on an open hillside. The cemetery contains about 200 markers, mostly fieldstones but some inscribed markers dating from at least 1857.</p><br>
<p>The Damascus Baptist Church&#39;s roots go back to May 11, 1839, when a meeting of Baptists was held at the Damascus Meeting House across the Snow Creek from the current location of the church. The first minister of the church, William Garner, was called to service in February 1842. In November 1842, the church appointed managers to construct the arbor. While the congregation has constructed several church buildings, the arbor has remained in continuous use.</p><br>
<p>Permanent, open-sided wood arbors were an outgrowth of brush arbors. They were used as places of worship before permanent churches could be built and as sites for camp meetings or revival meetings. Arbors were common in the Piedmont region of the United States. These meetings were traditionally held in the summer and the open-sided arbor was a more comfortable location than the interior of a church.</p><br>
<p>Coddle Creek Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Session House and Cemetery is a historic Associate Reformed Presbyterian church located near Mooresville in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States.</p><br>
<p>The first church building was constructed in 1753 and destroyed by fire in 1839. Its replacement was destroyed by fire in 1884 and the current structure was built. The church building is a one-story, three bay by five bay, Late Italianate style frame building. It features an entrance tower with louvered vents, four cross gables with wooden finials at the peak, and bracketed eaves. Also on the property is the contributing session house, built about 1884, and the church cemetery with about 250 gravestones.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Centre Presbyterian Church, Session House and Cemeteries is a historic Presbyterian church, session house, and cemetery located near Mount Mourne, Iredell County, North Carolina . The original church building was constructed in 1765, but was destroyed by fire. The current church building and session house were constructed 1854. The church is a one-story, three bay by four bay, rectangular vernacular Greek Revival-style brick church. The church&#39;s cemetery contains gravestones dating to the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Center Street A.M.E. Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located on S. Center Street in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1903, and is a one-story, three bay by seven bay, Late Gothic Revival-style brick building. It has a steep gable roof sheathed in pressed tin and features two corner entrance towers of unequal height and a large, pointed arch stained glass window. The church also goes by the name Mount Pleasant AME Zion Church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Center Street Church is the oldest church associated with a black congregation in Statesville. The building is the third associated with the Mount Zion A.M.E. Church, which was formed in 1868 or 1869 after the USA Civil War. The first two buildings were wood frame structures. The first church leaders were Sidney S. Murdock and Alfred Baily.</p><br>
<h2>Other AME churches in Iredell County</h2><br>
<p>Other AME Zion churches in Iredell County include:</p><br>
<p>Shiloh AME Zion Church on Salisbury Road in the Belmont area of Statesville, organized in 1880</p><br>
<p>Piney Grove AME Zion Church in Harmony</p><br>
<p>Rocky Creek AME Zion Church in Harmony</p><br>
<p>Mt. Vernon AME Zion Church in Statesville</p><br>
<p>Siloam AME Zion Church in Harmony</p><br>
<p>Elmwood AME Zion Church in Elmwood, organized in 1908</p><br>
<p>Webster Methodist Church is an historic Methodist church located on NC 116 / Main St., at Webster, Jackson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1887, and is a one-story, three-bay, rectangular Vernacular Gothic Revival style frame church. It is sheathed in weatherboard, has a front gable roof, and engaged bell tower.</p><br>
<p>In 1989 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Congressman David McKee Hall is buried in the church cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The building was built as the Methodist Church building of the town of Webster, North Carolina in 1887, and still serves as a church. It was renovated in 1960 and 2000. It sits on the old Main Street of Webster next to the Webster Rock School, on the hill on which the downtown area of Webster was once located. It was built when Webster was a thriving town with a Courthouse, many businesses, homes, and people. Today Webster is a quiet residential area with two churches, a cemetery, older Victorian homes, 1920s-1950s homes, newer homes, and an old rock WPA Schoolhouse. The current congregation meets on Sundays at 9:30 a.m.</p><br>
<p>Hannah&#39;s Creek Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church located at Benson, Johnston County, North Carolina. It was built about 1834 or about 1866, and is a vernacular one-story rectangular, timber-frame building, five bays wide and three bays deep. It rests on a brick pier foundation and has a gable roof. The building measures 36 feet wide and 48 feet long. The church was moved to its present location in the 1930s. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery with burials dating from the late-19th century to 1940.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Cemeteries is a historic Presbyterian church and cemeteries located at 1333 Carthage Street in Sanford, Lee County, North Carolina. It was built in 1879, and is a two-story, gable-fronted, Gothic Revival style frame building. The front facade features lancet-arched double-leaf entries, lancet-arched windows, and a three-stage projecting entry tower with a flared, pyramidal roof and finial. Associated with the church is the manse built in 1926. It is a two-story, hip-roofed frame dwelling with Colonial Revival detailing. Also on the property are the original church cemetery, a cemetery for African-American congregants, the Matthews family plot, and the main cemetery. It is the oldest Presbyterian Church in Lee County, Sanford, North Carolina. This is an active congregation of the Presbyterian Church USA.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Euphronia Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church and national historic district located at 3800 Steel Bridge Road near Sanford, Lee County, North Carolina. It was built in 1886, and is a two-story frame building with weatherboard siding and a gable-fronted nave form. It features a two-tier belfry rising from the roof ridge. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Kinston Baptist-White Rock Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian and Baptist church building located at 516 Thompson Street in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built in 1857–1858, and is a rectangular, temple-form Greek Revival style frame building with a pedimented front gable roof. It features a bold distyle in antis portico with enclosed end bays. The church was built for the Kinston Baptist Church and moved to its present  location in 1901 after its purchase by an African-American Presbyterian congregation  which it has served since that time.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Baptist Parsonage, also known as Archbell House, is a historic Baptist church parsonage located at 211 S. McLewean Street in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built about 1858, and is a two-story, double-pile, center-hall-plan Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It is sheathed with weatherboard siding, has a hipped roof, and paired stuccoed interior chimneys.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Emmanuel Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church building located at 216 S. Aspen Street in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was built in 1919, and is a rectangular Late Gothic Revival style brick church with a four-stage central tower with a conical steeple. It features pale beige terra cotta, cast stone, granite, and poured cement detailing; lancet arched door and window openings; and stepped buttresses.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Cultural Center, also known as the former First Baptist Church of Lincolnton is a historic church location at 403 E. Main Street in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. The building was designed by architect James M. McMichael in a Classical Revival style with a tetrastyle two-story portico and a spherical dome. Its plans were approved in 1919; construction was completed in 1922. The building was acquired by Lincoln County and renovated as the Lincoln Cultural Center and opened for public use in September 1991.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church of Lincolnton is currently located at 201 Robin Road, Lincolnton, North Carolina 28092.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building located at 114 W. Main Street in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was built in 1917, and is a rectangular Late Gothic Revival style brick church with projecting corner towers. It has a front gable slate roof and features shallow, cement-capped buttresses, and lancet-arch windows. The interior is a modified Akron Plan with a theater-style sanctuary and adjoining space for extra seating or Sunday school.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>First United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church building located at 201 E. Main Street in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was built in three stages in 1919–1920, 1936, and 1956–1957. The oldest section is a two-story Classical Revival style brick church with a two-story portico and dome-covered sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It is located in the Lincolnton Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Salem Union Church and Cemetery, also known as Salem Lutheran Church and Salem United Church of Christ, is a historic United Church of Christ church and cemetery located near Maiden, Lincoln County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1849 as a simple rectangular brick building, and enlarged and remodeled in the Late Gothic Revival style in 1914–1915. With the remodeling, a two-stage corner tower was added and the window and door openings converted to lancet-arch openings. A two-story Sunday School addition was built in 1936–1937 and in 1989 a Fellowship Hall was built to form an H-shaped church building. Also on the property is a contributing well shed  and cemetery with burials dating to 1792.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church and Cemetery is a historic Episcopal church complex, cemetery, and national historic district located at 303-321 N. Cedar Street, 322 E. McBee Street in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. The complex includes the church, parish hall, and rectory. The church was built in 1885–1886, and is a Late Gothic Revival style frame structure with a brick veneer added in 1922–1923. The tower is believed to date to 1859. The parish hall was built in 1907, and is a one-story, rectangular frame building. The rectory was built in 1911–1912, and is a two-story, "T"-form Colonial Revival style dwelling with a pebbledash finish. The cemetery includes approximately 300 gravestones, with the earliest dating to 1854.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
