<p>Oak Ridge Historic District  is a historic district in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Roughly bounded by East Drive, Outer and West Outer Drives, Louisiana Avenue, and Tennessee Avenue, the district comprises much of Oak Ridge&#39;s original Manhattan Project townsite, laid out by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.</p><br>
<p>Contributing properties in the historic district include United Church, The Chapel on the Hill, the Alexander Inn, and Highland View Elementary School, which houses the Children&#39;s Museum of Oak Ridge. The district was added to the National Register in 1991.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 600 N. Brittain Street in Shelbyville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian congregation was established in 1815. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA).</p><br>
<p>The churchs Greek Revival building was completed in 1854 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It has been described as one of Tennessees finest Greek Revival churches.</p><br>
<p>Jenkins Lutheran Chapel and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran church near Shelbyville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church building was completed in 1886. Around 1976 it ceased being used as a church and was renamed "Jenkins Chapel." It is now maintained by a nonprofit religious organization that was established to preserve the building and grounds. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Three term (1939–45) Tennessee Governor Prentice Cooper (1895–1969) is buried there.</p><br>
<p>Shofners Lutheran Chapel is a historic church on Thompsons Creek near Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States. The church and adjacent cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Shofners&#39; Lutheran Church and Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was established by Martin Shofner in 1808. A log church was built on a portion of the land grant that Shofner had received for Revolutionary War service. The church is said to be the first Lutheran congregation in Tennessee or anywhere west of the Allegheny Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The current church building is a clapboard Greek Revival-influenced building built around 1870.</p><br>
<p>The church building and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The Tennessee Department of Transportation later revised its construction plans for the highway project to avoid adverse impacts. On June 9, 2014, a storm damaged the church roof and knocked down some trees in the churchyard.</p><br>
<p>Pikeville Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic African-American church on E. Valley Drive in Pikeville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1870, during Reconstruction. It was used by multiple congregations and also served as the community&#39;s black school until 1925, when a Rosenwald school (Lincoln School) was built. The church still houses an active congregation. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Bethlehem Methodist Church is a historic church in Wildwood, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church was organized in 1886 and its Gothic Revival building was completed that same year. The church building has a gable front and a prominent bell tower. The doorway and windows are crowned by Gothic arches, elements of the Gothic Revival style that was popular for late 19th-century churches in the region.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was dissolved in 1966, but the church is still used sometimes for weddings, funerals, and other special occasions. The church and its adjacent cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Cloyd&#39;s Creek Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Greenback, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Its Greek Revival building was completed in 1872, replacing an older log building. It is a gable-front frame building and has a full-width portico with Doric columns on its main facade. It is the only 19th-century Greek Revival church in Blount County and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Friends Church is a historic church at 314 W. Broadway in Maryville, in the USA state of Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1871 as a meetinghouse for the local congregation of the Society of Friends (Quakers). The Quakers were an important group in Maryville in the 19th century that played a major role in building the communitys early schools, including the Freedmans Institute and Maryville Normal School. The single-story brick church is of Italianate design and is laid out on an ell plan.</p><br>
<p>Since 1940 the building has been used for Episcopal worship. It currently houses St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>It is the oldest brick church in Blount County, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It became a Blount County historic landmark in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Broad Street United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located at 155 Central Ave NW  in Cleveland, Tennessee, United States.</p><br>
<p>The Broad Street United Methodist congregation traces its history to 1836, when Methodists met for worship in the Bradley County Courthouse in Cleveland. From 1836 until 1893, when the church&#39;s current building was completed, the congregation was based at four different sites in the city.</p><br>
<p>In 1863, during the Civil War, the church&#39;s building at the corner of Church and First Streets was taken over by the Union Army and used as a stable and granary. In 1867-1868, the congregation erected a new brick building at the present church location. In 1893, that building was demolished and the current church building was constructed on the same site. It is designed in the Romanesque Revival style, with an Akron plan sanctuary. Additions were made to the building in 1922 and 1968.</p><br>
<p>The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 433 Ocoee Street NW in Cleveland, Tennessee. The First Presbyterian congregation is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church  and the Presbytery of East Tennessee.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was built in 1856 and is the oldest extant church building in Cleveland. It was damaged by military activity during the American Civil War; some of the musket balls that were fired into the steeple are still embedded there. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>St. Lukes Episcopal Church is a historic church at Ocoee and Central Streets, NW in Cleveland, Tennessee, United States. It is one of the citys oldest buildings and the second oldest church building in Cleveland.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival-style church building was built in 1873. It was dedicated to the memory of a 7-year-old girl, Nina Craigmiles, who died on October 18, 1871, when the buggy she was riding in was hit by a railroad switch engine.</p><br>
<p>The church building features stained glass windows, wooden arches with intricate carvings, and a 3-story bell tower that contains a bell that is rung nine times after the opening voluntary at the beginning of each service, three peals each in honour of The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost. In addition to the bell, an electric carillon that plays the Westminster Chimes on the quarter hours. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The First Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a historic Cumberland Presbyterian church building in McKenzie, Tennessee, United States, that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The church is located at 647 Stonewall Street North in central McKenzie, among several other church buildings, including a First Presbyterian Church, a First Baptist Church, and a First United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1867 as the "Bethlehem Congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at McKenzie, Tennessee." It moved into its first permanent building in 1873. In 1889 the congregation adopted the name "McKenzie Cumberland Presbyterian Church". The 18,000 ft2 Gothic building on Stonewall Street was built over the five-year period 1887 to 1892 at a cost of $8,000. It stood out in the community for its architecture, including a tall steeple over a high-vaulted slate roof, as well as its art glass windows.</p><br>
<p>In 1998 the congregation began a building project that culminated in 2002 with its relocation to a new 21,000 ft2 church at 16835 Highland Drive. Some of the old church&#39;s furnishings were to be moved to the new building, and its stained glass windows were placed in storage in preparation for their installation in the new church, which was expected to be done in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The former church building is now utilized by the Nursing Program of Bethel University.</p><br>
<p>Big Spring Union Church, also known as Big Springs Primitive Baptist Church, is a historic church in Springdale, Claiborne County, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church was built circa 1795 or 1796, and was known at first as Big Spring Meetinghouse. A Baptist church was organized at the site in 1800. During the Civil War, it served as a hospital for both Confederate and Union Army troops.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the oldest church buildings in Tennessee that is still in active use as a church. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The church is on Lone Mountain Road, off Tennessee State Route 32. The Tennessee State Library and Archives holds a copy of the records of Big Spring Primitive Baptist Church for the years 1800 through 1948.</p><br>
<p>Manchester Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a historic Cumberland Presbyterian congregation in Manchester, Tennessee. Its former church building, also known as the Church Street Theatre, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The church was organized in 1854. Its first church was a two-story wooden frame building that was shared with local Masons, who held the meetings upstairs from the church.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s second building, built in 1890, is a brick building of Gothic Revival design located at the corner of Church and W. High Streets in Manchester. In 1961, the church vacated this building when it moved to its present location on the corner of McArthur and Coffee Streets. The 1890 church building was added to the National Register in 1992, and was delisted in 2021.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Assumption is a historic church at 1227 7th Ave. North in Nashville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1858 using, in part, reclaimed bricks from Nashville&#39;s first Catholic Church, Holy Rosary Cathedral. The church served the German immigrants of Nashville and was occupied by Union troops during the Civil War. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Since 2016, the Church of the Assumption has celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass every Sunday, and some other days of the week, in addition to the English post-Vatican II Mass.</p><br>
<p>The Revd S Bede Price was appointed 35th Pastor of the Church of the Assumption in June 2019 and installed by The Most Revd J Mark Spalding on the Feast of the Assumption.</p><br>
<p>On March 3, 2020, the church was struck by a tornado, compromising the buildings structural integrity. An extensive, multi-year restoration project subsequently began, not only to repair and reinforce the building, but to re-decorate the Churchs interior. The restoration project is still ongoing in 2024.</p><br>
<p>Elm Street Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church building at 616 5th Avenue, South in Nashville, Tennessee. The building no longer serves as a place of worship and has been converted to offices. In 2019 it will be Bob Dylans Heavens Door whiskey&#39;s distillery and brand experience center.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1871 in an Italianate style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Church  is a historic Episcopal church at 615 6th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee, currently a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. The congregation was formed in 1849 as a mission of the nearby Christ Church Episcopal, attained parish status in 1851, and grew to around fifty members per service by the beginning of the American Civil War. During the war, the church was occupied by Federal troops and was badly damaged. After repairs, services continued and a new mission was opened on Wharf Avenue, which catered to the African American population of Nashville and soon overtook Holy Trinity in membership. After Holy Trinity lost parish status in 1895, the two missions merged and continued to serve the African American community of Nashville. Its congregation was largely made up of faculty and students from nearby Fisk University and other educational institutions. The mission reattained parish status in 1962, and the current rector is Bill Dennler.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the congregation&#39;s Gothic Revival style building began in 1852 and continued incrementally for more than three decades until the building was finally completed and consecrated in 1888. The building features a square central tower housing the narthex, adjoined to which is a tall bell tower. Pointed arch stained glass windows are featured throughout, and a steeply gabled roof is adorned with matching stone crosses. The interior of the church features a hammerbeam roof and an elaborate carved altar. Holy Trinity was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Establishment</h3><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Trinity was originally organized on September 23, 1849 as "St. Pauls Mission on Summer Street" (now Fifth Avenue) at the desire of Reverend Charles S. Tomes, then rector of the nearby Christ Church Episcopal, Nashvilles first Episcopal congregation, located on the corner of what is now Sixth Avenue North and Church Street. The mission, which was the first spawned by Christ Church, began with a small cohort of twelve members of Christ Church and averaged around fifty attendees per service throughout its first year. Tomes was assisted by John Philip Thurston Ingraham from Wisconsin for the first year of the missions existence, but Ingraham resigned in 1850 after an outbreak of cholera in the city proved too burdensome for him to handle. After Ingrahams departure, Tomes had to pull double duty many weeks as the rector of both Christ Church and St. Pauls mission, as any temporary priests tenures were short-lived.</p><br>
<p>By 1851, the mission had been organized into a parish under Reverend John W. Rogers, and on December 6 of the same year, the parish purchased a lot on what is now Sixth Avenue South, Lafayette Street, and Ewing Avenue for the construction of a new building to be called the "Church of the Holy Trinity." After a short fundraising drive spearheaded by Tomes, the cornerstone was laid in May 1852. Since Tomes was married to Henrietta Otey, daughter of Bishop James Hervey Otey, the first Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, the Bishop was invited to give a sermon at the ceremony in May 1852.</p><br>
<p>It was Tomes&#39;s intention to organize the church as a "free church", i.e. one that did not charge pew taxes, a common fund-raising method for churches in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Tomes was vehemently opposed to these charges, claiming they discriminated against poor parishioners, and resented the fact that his home parish of Christ Church required payment for use of church pews. He would later resign as the rector from Christ Church in 1857 because of this disagreement.</p><br>
<h3>Early rectors</h3><br>
<p>The design of the church building was drawn up by Frank Wills and Henry C. Dudley, architects from New York City who had formed a partnership a year before the church was constructed. The building was constructed over an extended period of time and was not consecrated until May 27, 1888, although services began in the unfinished building as early as 1853. Later that year, Reverend Rogers resigned from his post as rector and the burden again fell on Tomes to lead the Church of the Holy Trinity in addition to Christ Church, although with temporary relief by Reverend John McCullough. Tomes was finally relieved in 1855 by Reverend W.D. Harlow, who served for two years (during which Tomes died) before being succeeded by Charles Todd Quintard, later the second bishop of Tennessee. Quintard served as rector from February 1858 until early 1859, and was succeeded by George Carroll Harris, who served as rector until 1862, when he left to become a chaplain in the Army for the remainder of the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>During the first part of the Civil War, services were only held infrequently, and the church was seized by Federal troops in 1862 to serve as a storage facility for gunpowder and weapons as well as troop quarters later on. During the occupation, the church was badly damaged. The altar was used as a cutting board, the font as a wash basin, the original pipe organ destroyed, and many of the stained glass windows shattered. After the occupation, the army was forced to pay damages to the church totalling $1,200.</p><br>
<p>After the war, Jedidiah H. Bowes served as rector for a year, followed by W.T. Helm. Using the reimbursement from the army, the chancel was carpeted and the organ replaced, as were a few of the windows damaged during the war. Moses S. Royce served as rector from 1868 until his death from cholera on June 9, 1873. During Royce&#39;s tenure, a new mission was opened on Wharf Avenue, obtaining parish status in 1872 before soon being reverted to mission status in 1876. This new mission was predominantly attended by African Americans, and members of the mission would later hold services at Holy Trinity around the turn of the century after Holy Trinity lost its parish status in 1895. The mission grew to over 100 members by 1880.</p><br>
<p>After Royces death in 1873, Thomas Lawson served as rector until 1877, when he was succeeded by Jesse Harrison, who served until 1883. Joseph Gray followed, serving only a year before he was succeeded by James Lytton and then Melville Moore, who served until 1886. Under the ministry of Cabell Mayo Martin, the building was finally consecrated in 1888, and in 1889 an adjacent lot was purchased for expansion. Reverend John Scully served for two years after Martins resignation in 1892, followed by the short tenure of S. B. Hillock before Holy Trinity&#39;s parish status was suspended in 1895.</p><br>
<h3>African American congregation</h3><br>
<p>Though throughout its history the congregation of Holy Trinity had been all-inclusive, not discriminating on account of race, it wasnt until after the churchs parish status was lost that the congregation officially became an African American congregation. The mission on Wharf Avenue was officially designated an all-black congregation in 1896, and by 1907 the mission had rejoined Holy Trinity, cementing this designation. Many of the congregation&#39;s members at this time were faculty and students of the recently established Fisk University, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University.</p><br>
<p>Rectors during this transitional period were Bacon Hillock (1895–1896), Arthur Noll (1896–1897), A.W. Cheatham (1897–1900), H.T. Walden (1900–1902), Colin Basset (1902–1903), David Wallace and Robert Morgan (1903–1904), William Allen (1904–1905), and Edward Batty (1905–1906). During Batty&#39;s tenure, the Wharf Avenue property was sold, and the profits were used to renovate Holy Trinity. Reverend Arthur Coombs had served as the priest at Wharf Avenue and so held the same position at Holy Trinity after the merger, holding it for eight years until 1915.</p><br>
<p>Between 1915 and 1928, E.M.M. Wright, C.W. Brooks, and W.A. Bruce served as rectors of Holy Trinity, followed by Reverend A. Myron Cochran, whose tenure began in 1928. During his tenure, which lasted until 1943, many students attended the church. In his notes Cochran counted 44 students from Fisk University, 15 from A and I State College, and 15 from Meharry Medical. The next rector of Holy Trinity was Charles M. Johnson, who served until 1956, followed by George E. Harper and James E. Williams until 1962. In 1962, parish status was restored to Holy Trinity.</p><br>
<h3>A parish again</h3><br>
<p>Cecil H. Cowan served as rector after Holy Trinity&#39;s restoration to parish status in 1962 until 1970, followed by Crayton</p><br>
<p>Thomas Dudley in 1974. In the 1980s, the church began to desegregate and now about 25% of its members are white. The current rector is Bill Dennler.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The congregations building is constructed in the Gothic Revival style and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 primarily for its architectural significance. The plans were originally drawn up in 1851 by the duo of Frank Wills and Henry C. Dudley, architects from New York City well known for designing churches of this style throughout North America. The building is constructed of native limestone ashlar and features a central square tower adorned with battlements and two sets of pointed arch stained glass windows, one on each level. An electric cross donated by member Alfred Galloway some time during Rev. Cochrans rectorship (1928–1943) is hung just above the lower set of windows. A pair of double red doors are located in the center of the tower, hung in 1952 as part of the church&#39;s centennial celebration. The central tower was not completed immediately after the laying of the cornerstone in 1852 but rather over the course of several years, only reaching the same height as the roof of the nave during the rectorship of George Carroll Harris (1859–1862).</p><br>
<p>The narthex of the church is located at the base of the tower, and there is a large bell tower chamfered into the southwest corner of the tower. The belfry atop the bell tower was originally topped with battlements similar to those atop the square tower, but those were removed some time after 1941. The original plans called for a polygonal spire to top the bell tower, but it was never built. The nave of the church is approximately 70 ft by 35 ft, and its exterior is segmented lengthwise by several buttresses, between each lancet windows are located. The roof of the nave is steeply gabled and constructed of varnished cedar wood covered originally with seamed tin but later with more contemporary roofing material.</p><br>
<p>A square chancel measuring about 22 ft on all sides and with a height shorter than that of the main nave is adjoined to the rear of the nave and topped with the same roofing material. The apexes of both roofs feature matching stone crosses. The rear wall of the chancel features a triplet of pointed arch stained glass windows, and the exterior is flanked with two corner buttresses. A small addition to the eastern side of the chancel was originally used as a Sunday School room and is built in a similar fashion as the chancel itself. The chancel was one of the first parts of the building to be completed, being ready for service in early 1853, several months before the nave was completed later that year. Carpeting was added to the chancel in 1866 and electric lighting in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Lindsley Avenue Church of Christ is a historic church at 3 Lindsley Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. It was built in 1894 and added to the National Register in 1984. It is across the road from the Nashville Children&#39;s Theatre.</p><br>
<p>The Church was founded by David Lipscomb. Dr. Ira North was formerly a minister and eventually moved to the Madison Church of Christ. Laws Rushing II was minister for nearly a decade.</p><br>
<p>Gene Wright is the current minister of the Church. The congregation celebrates a homecoming service on the second Sunday of October every year.</p><br>
<p>Old Hickory Methodist Church is a Methodist congregation which meets at 1216 Hadley Avenue in Old Hickory, Tennessee. The church building was constructed in 1928 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Old Hickory Methodist Church was organized in 1925. Originally, it met in the "little gym," which is now the site of the Old Hickory Community Center. The construction of the current sanctuary began with services held in the basement. The sanctuary was completed in 1929 at a cost of $30,000, and the first service was held on the first Sunday in 1929. Pews were installed in 1936 to replace folding chairs. An educational annex was added in 1939 at a cost of $10,000, and second floor was added in 1954. In 1967 the sanctuary was remodeled and redecorated. Stained-glass windows were installed in 1983. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in May 1985.</p><br>
<p>New cushioned pews were added in 1990. Marvin Rodgers memorials placed new pew Bibles, lectern, wedding candle, Advent wreath, Paschal candlestick, communion ware, and candelabra in the sanctuary. In 1982, the Prayer Room was built.</p><br>
<p>In 2024, Old Hickory United Methodist Church made the decision to separate from the United Methodist Church, and so dropped "United" from the church name.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary of the Seven Sorrows Church  is an historic Catholic parish in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Its church on the corner of Charlotte Avenue and 5th Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, built in 1845, it is the oldest extant church in Nashville and the oldest Catholic church in what is now the Diocese of Nashville. St. Mary replaced the dioceses first church, Holy Rosary, which had been erected previously on the site today occupied by the Tennessee State Capitol.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed by Adolphus Heiman (1809–1862), who also designed a number of other notable Nashville buildings, including the State Asylum and the Italianate-style Belmont Mansion. The late antebellum Greek Revival structure features a gabled front entrance of two fluted Ionic order columns supporting a classical pediment. The cornerstone was laid in 1844, not long after the erection of the diocese in 1837; construction was delayed, however, by lack of funds. It was dedicated on October 31, 1847. Richard Pius Miles, the first Bishop of Nashville, was the driving force behind its construction, and he is now buried there.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s remained the cathedral until 1914, when the episcopal see was moved to the Cathedral of the Incarnation.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Calvary Episcopal Church  is a historic Episcopal church located off Tennessee State Route 48 in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. James Episcopal Church was founded in 1878. Its small white frame church building was completed the following year in a Gothic Revival style. The church was consecrated by Bishop Charles Quintard in August 1882.</p><br>
<p>The builders of the church were Captain James Pierre Drouillard and his wife, born Mary Florence Kirkman. Mary Florence Kirkman Drouillard was the granddaughter of Anthony Wayne Van Leer, who was a member of a well known historical family in Pennsylvania and noted in the anti-slavery cause. Van Leer purchased the notable iron works at Cumberland Furnace. She was heiress to the iron works in Cumberland Furnace as well as 20,000 acre of land in the vicinity. Drouillard was a West Point graduate who served as an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War; Mary Florence Kirkman shocked Nashville society when she married him there in 1864 (while the state of Tennessee was still at war with the Union). For several years, the Drouillards made their home in Cumberland Furnace and oversaw the operation of the iron works. In 1870 they built their three-story Italianate mansion home, now known as Drouillard House, on a site that overlooks the community. They also constructed a school for both black and white children on the land where the church&#39;s parish hall now stands. In 1882, the Drouillards transferred the church to the Protestant Episcopal Church of Tennessee for $5. The Drouillards left Cumberland Furnace in 1886 and took up residence in Nashville. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>During the 1980s, St. James established a "daughter" church in Dickson. During the 1990s, the church in Dickson was redesignated as St. James Episcopal Church and the church in Cumberland Furnace became a mission church, renamed Calvary Church.</p><br>
<p>The Immanuel Church in La Grange, Tennessee is a historic Episcopal church at 2nd and Chestnut Street.</p><br>
<p>The church was established as a mission in 1832. The church building was built in 1842 and consecrated in 1843. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War, the Union army used it as an armory and hospital. The pews were torn out and used as coffins for Union dead.</p><br>
<p>It is also a contributing building in the La Grange Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Bethany Presbyterian Church Complex in Giles County, Tennessee was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The complex includes the Bethany Presbyterian Church (1853), the Bethany Academy (1858), and the Bethany Church Manse (1887). The church "is an excellent local example of antebellum Greek Revival chapel architecture. The academy is the oldest educational building in Giles County.</p><br>
<p>The site was removed from the National Register in 2020.</p><br>
<p>Original Church of God  is an historic church building at 115 Gordon Street in Pulaski, Tennessee. The brick structure was built in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The Original Church of God is a denomination aligned with the holiness movement; its membership is predominantly African American. The congregation in Pulaski, which formed in 1906, is the earliest known congregation of this denomination in Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Henderson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic African-American church on Church Street in Rutledge, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church building was constructed in 1890. It is a frame building with a gable entrance, a vernacular design that is commonly seen in rural African-American churches built in the twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>New Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a historic church building near Greeneville in rural Greene County, Tennessee, United States.</p><br>
<p>The New Bethel congregation formed in 1839 after 38 citizens of Greene County successfully petitioned the Knoxville Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for the organization of a new congregation. The church building was constructed in 1841 on a 4 acre tract donated by John Harmon. Funds for its construction were donated by James Carter, a local resident who had aspired to join the ministry, but died before he could realize his dream.</p><br>
<p>The building is of wood frame construction with rural Vernacular Greek Revival styling that stresses simplicity. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Bethesda Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Russellville, Tennessee, US, that was used as a hospital during the American Civil War. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bethesda Presbyterian Church was organized in 1832. The church building was completed in 1835. It is a brick building equipped with high-back wooden pews and an "ornate" wooden pulpit.</p><br>
<p>As the Civil War approached, the congregants&#39; sympathies were divided between the Union and secessionist sides. The split led the church to suspend activity until after the hostilities ended.</p><br>
<p>Some 25,000 Confederate Army soldiers under the command of General James Longstreet arrived at the church in December 1863 to spend the winter, after the Battle of Beans Station. They remained there until February 1864 and used the church building as a hospital. In the Battle of Bulls Gap (also known as “Gillems Stampede”) in November, Confederate forces under General John C. Breckinridge and Vaughn prevailed over Gillems troops, chasing the Union forces westward to a defensive position near Knoxville. Many soldiers from both sides are interred in the church cemetery. Eighty of the wartime burials are unidentified.</p><br>
<p>Worship services resumed after the war ended, but church members could not reconcile their political differences. Confederate and Union supporters sat on different sides of the church, separated by empty pews. In 1871, one group walked out together; they then joined the Presbyterian Church of Morristown. The other group continued to worship at Bethesda Presbyterian Church until 1875, when they closed Bethesda and left to become part of the new Russellville Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<h2>Modern status</h2><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The church building and its cemetery are maintained by members of a local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. In 2011, a pair of local teenagers vandalized the church and its cemetery, breaking windows and defacing gravestones. It currently has a Civil War Trails sign that signifies its usage in the American Civil War and a plaque honoring the fallen Civil War veterans.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul Presbyterian Church in Lowland, Tennessee, also known as St.Paul United Presbyterian Church, is a historic Presbyterian church. It was built in 1857 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is built of brick laid in stretcher bond, on a brick foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable as "an excellent example of the Greek Revival style church built in rural East Tennessee in the 1840s and 1850s. Since small congregations had limited funds available for new buildings, they interpreted the temple form without the columned porticos, that is, in the unadorned form which is characterized by St. Paul Presbyterian Church. It has been hypothesized that nineteenth-century Tennessee Presbyterians preferred the Greek Revival style for their churches, while Episcopalians in the same region favored the Gothic Revival style. St. Paul&#39;s adds evidence to this hypothesis."</p><br>
<p>The property also includes a non-contributing brick-veneered, concrete block residence (ca.1960) which was moved to the property by 1979.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church Education Building is a historic building at 317 Oak Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1928 to serve the congregation of the adjacent First Baptist Church, which had been built in 1886. Both buildings were designed by prominent local architect Reuben Harrison Hunt. Hunt was a member of the First Baptist Church, and the church building was his first major architectural project in Chattanooga. His design for the education building was intended to harmonize with the Romanesque design elements in the church, which was destroyed some time between 1928 and 1980.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church Education Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Female College and Cokesbury Conference School is a historic building in Cokesbury, South Carolina, that was the home of several different educational institutions in the century from 1854 to 1954. Together with the adjacent village of Old Cokesbury, it is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an historic district.</p><br>
<p>When built in 1854, the school building was the home of the Masonic Female College of South Carolina, which was established in 1853 and operated until 1874 under the sponsorship of Bascomb Lodge No. 80 of Freemasons. The school was unusual for its time in providing an education for young women.</p><br>
<p>From 1876 to 1918, the building was the site of the Cokesbury Conference School, a school for boys from 1876 to 1882, and co-educational thereafter. In 1918, it became a public school, and operated as such until 1954. In 1954 the property reverted to the South Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. The three-story Greek Revival style building has a bell tower and four square columns that extend from the ground level to the pediment. The first floor contained four student recitation rooms and four music rooms, there was a chapel on the second floor, and the third floor housed a Masonic Lodge headquarters. The school building and Old Cokesbury were listed together on the National Register on August 25, 1970.</p><br>
<p>Asbury United Methodist Church, originally Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church on Bailey Avenue in Chattanooga, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1889 as the Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church. The congregation soon moved into a new frame church that it used for about 20 years before completing the current building. The current church building is a brick structure in a Gothic design created by architect Reuben Harrison Hunt. It was completed in 1909, dedicated in 1911, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church changed its name to Asbury Methodist Church in 1938, when the Methodist Episcopal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church, South, merged. It later added "United" to its name when the United Methodist Church was formed. Another local congregation with a similar name, Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church, South, became St. Andrews Methodist Church and later St. Andrews United Methodist Church. Asbury United Methodist Church closed on July 1, 1984. Its congregation merged with Brainerd United Methodist Church and the church property was sold to Highland Park Baptist Church, which renamed the former Asbury Methodist building as the "Asbury Chapel". St. Andrew&#39;s closed in 2004. When Highland Park Baptist Church relocated to Harrison, Tennessee, in 2013, it sold Asbury Chapel and six other buildings in the Highland Park neighborhood to Redemption Point Church, a Church of God congregation based in Ooltewah.</p><br>
<p>Wiley Memorial United Methodist Church, now known as Bethlehem Wiley United Methodist Church, is a historic church at 504 Lookout Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, affiliated with the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>The churchs site was an important community center in the early years of Rosss Landing, before it came to be called Chattanooga. During the American Civil War, an earlier church building on the site was used as a military hospital and prison by the Confederate Army and later as a Union Army military prison. The building incurred major damage during the 1863 Battle of Chattanooga. In 1867 it was purchased for use by the first African Methodist Episcopal congregation in East Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The churchs current brick building, completed in 1886–1887, replaced a building that was destroyed by arson. It was rebuilt though the cooperative efforts of the congregations members.</p><br>
<p>The city declared the building unsafe for occupancy in 1978. Money was raised to restore the historic building. Following restoration, which included installation of a new roof, sandblasting the exterior, and uncovering some of the interior woodwork, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. After the 1979 National Register listing, city officials allowed the congregation to resume its use of the church for worship.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church East 8th Street, historically named Shiloh Baptist Church, is a historic church at 506 E. 8th Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1866 as Shiloh Baptist Church by a group of men who had served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. Initially they worshiped in a blacksmith shop; subsequently they met for worship in members&#39; homes.</p><br>
<p>The church building was built in 1885 with the labor of former slaves. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Second Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 700 Pine Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, affiliated with Presbyterian Church USA.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival building, designed by Reuben Harrison Hunt, was built in 1890. It is the oldest building designed by Hunt that is still extant in Chattanooga. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Since 1984, the undercroft of the churchs main building has been used as a homeless shelter, operated as a cooperative project of Second Presbyterian Church and St. Pauls Episcopal Church. St. Matthews Mens Night Shelter started as a winter-only emergency shelter for homeless men. It now operates year-round to provide overnight housing for men who are participating in a rehabilitative program, such as the program of the Chattanooga Community Kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul is a historic Catholic church at 214 E. 8th Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the oldest continuing parishes in the Diocese of Knoxville.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Chattanooga was founded in January 1852. The small but growing Catholic community in Chattanooga attended Mass in various buildings through the parish&#39;s early years. In 1858, work began on a stone church, but construction ceased in 1860 due to the Civil War. The nearly completed church was seized by the occupying Union Army during the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. The Army of the Cumberland used the stone from the church to construct fortifications and culverts. Though General William Rosecrans (himself a Catholic) had attempted to prevent the site from being disturbed, when he was replaced by General George H. Thomas, demolition of the church resumed. After the war, the congregation filed a claim with the USA government for the seizure of the stone. Finally, in 1889, a claim for $18,729 was paid to offset the war-time damage.</p><br>
<p>Under the leadership of Fr William Walsh, an Irish priest, ground was broken on the current church site on February 1, 1888. The current building was dedicated June 29, 1890. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church and Buildings.</p><br>
<p>Stained-glass windows in the basilica, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, depict significant events in the lives of the parishs patron saints. The life of Saint Peter is depicted in the east side windows and the life of Saint Paul in the west side. The basilicas walls are also adorned with 14 polychrome Stations of the Cross, whose scenes depict the suffering, death, and burial of Jesus Christ. The Kilgen organ in the church was built in 1936.</p><br>
<p>Saints Peter and Paul was raised to a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI and inaugurated by Bishop Richard Stika of the Diocese of Knoxville on October 22, 2011. Monsignor George E. Schmidt, Jr., who had served as pastor since 1986, became the basilica&#39;s first rector. He was among more than 30 sons of the parish who entered into the priesthood.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the Diocese of Knoxville began a cause of canonization of Fr Patrick Ryan, who served as pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Parish from 1872 to 1878. He died from yellow fever on Sept. 28, 1878 at the age of 33. Ryan is described by an eyewitness as "going from house to house in the worst-infected section of the city to find what he could do for the sick and needy."</p><br>
<p>Northside Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church at 923 Mississippi Avenue in Chattanooga, Tennessee, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1886, and its first building was completed in 1888.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s current Greek Revival building, completed in 1916 at a cost of $30,000, was designed by Reuben Harrison Hunt. It is his only Greek Revival design in Chattanooga. The building includes a church school annex added in 1926 and an education building added in 1958. In the 1960s, the sanctuary was remodeled. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It underwent major renovations in the 1980s and 1990s.</p><br>
<p>New Providence Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Surgoinsville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with Presbyterian Church .</p><br>
<p>The New Providence congregation was formed in 1780 at the home of William Armstrong II in a settlement in Carters Valley whose residents had come from Virginia, where they had belonged to another congregation called New Providence. The first services were led by the Reverend Samuel Doak and the Reverend Charles Cummins. The first church buildings were log structures in Carters Valley. Until 1816, the church lacked its own minister, but was served by circuit-riding ministers who sometimes referred to New Providence as "Armstrong Settlement".</p><br>
<p>An early school was established at the church in 1816 and was associated with the church for many years. A separate building for the school was built in the early 1850s and was renamed "Maxwell Academy" (after early settler George Maxwell) in the 1870s. After this building burned, it was replaced by the current two-story brick building in 1901.</p><br>
<p>The present church building was completed in 1892–1893 and received an addition in the 1940s. The church building, its cemetery, and Maxwell Academy were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>St. Marks Presbyterian Church is a historic African-American Presbyterian church in Rogersville, Tennessee. Its building was added to the list of National Register of Historic Places in March 10, 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was established in about 1875. Rev. William Henderson Franklin was its first minister, serving from 1883 until 1926. Franklin was also the founding president of Swift Memorial Junior College in Rogersville, with which the church was closely associated. Swift students and faculty were required to attend worship at St. Marks twice each week.</p><br>
<p>The church building is located at the junction of N. Hassen and W. Kyle Streets in Rogersville. The site was purchased some time after 1885 for the campus of Swift Memorial Junior College. The church was built in 1912. There are two front entrances to the building; the western door was originally for women and the eastern door was for men. Men and women formerly sat separately during services.</p><br>
<p>Swift Memorial College closed in 1955 due to financial problems. St. Marks Church and other properties associated with college were sold to Hawkins County the following year, but the St. Marks congregation was permitted to continue using the church building. A day care center operated in the church basement between 1973 and 1979.</p><br>
<p>With dwindling membership, the St. Marks congregation stopped holding regular worship services in 2000 and dissolved in 2002. Its building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 for its importance to the local African-American community and as a "fine example of 20th-century Shingle Style architecture". The Rogersville Historic District, which the church property abuts, does not include any buildings in the Shingle Style; this architectural style is uncommon in East Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Dancyville United Methodist Church is a historic church in the Dancyville community in Haywood County, Tennessee. The church and its cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The church survives as the oldest United Methodist Church in West Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church property was deeded to the Methodist Church on April 1, 1835. Two years later, in 1837, the congregation was organized and a log church building was built on the property. The current building was completed in 1850, replacing the log church. It is a wood frame building in a Greek Revival design, built from trees growing on the church grounds; the lumber was hewn and sawed by hand. It is one of only a few extant antebellum churches in rural west Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Republican Primitive Baptist Church is a historic African-American church of the Primitive Baptist tradition located in rural Haywood County, Tennessee, about 10 miles west of Brownsville.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in the years after the Civil War. The name "Republican" refers to the Republican Party, reflecting the predominant political allegiance of African Americans in that era.</p><br>
<p>The congregation&#39;s original church building burned in 1924 and was replaced in the following year by the present building. The church building is a one-story rectangular frame structure of vernacular design, painted white, with plain glass windows and no steeple. Its north facade is dominated by two main entrance doors. The two doors were originally separate entrances for men and women, who sat separately during worship; this type of segregation by gender was typical for Primitive Baptist churches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The building has electric service but lacks indoor plumbing.</p><br>
<p>The Republican Primitive Baptist Church served as a black school for the rural community of Shady Rest until a schoolhouse was completed in the late 1920s. In later years, the church continued to offer informal education at weekly meetings for local youth, teaching girls about nutrition, quilting, sewing, and other household skills, while boys received instruction in farming.</p><br>
<p>After its membership declined during the 1970s and 1980s, in 1989 the Republican congregation merged with a Primitive Baptist church in another community. The building is now used for annual homecomings.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Woodland Baptist Church is a historic church at 885 Woodland Church Road at Woodland in rural Haywood County, Tennessee. It was built in c. 1920 and added to the National Register in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Woodland Baptist Church has its origins in an earlier Haywood County congregation, namely Browns Creek Baptist Church. This congregation was composed of some of Haywood and Madison Countys earliest settlers. Little is known about this earlier church due to its later destruction following a fire.</p><br>
<p>In 1835, the Browns Creek congregation split over disagreements regarding missionary effort, seeing the Browns Creek Missionary Baptist Church being formed in response with Obadiah Dodson selected as its first pastor. This group&#39;s chosen site was just south of the current Woodland Church location. The church was relocated to its present site in 1869 following changes brought about by the Civil War. The present sanctuary was erected prior to 1920 and the church was renamed to Woodland Missionary Baptist Church. The educational annex was built in 1953.</p><br>
<p>It is unusual as an Akron plan church in rural Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The Zion Church in Brownsville, Tennessee, United States, also known as Christ Episcopal Church, is a historic church at College and Washington Streets which was built during 1854 to c.1869. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is a brick Gothic Revival-style church designed by the Reverend James W. Rogers, who led a fund-raising drive that raised $3,200 for construction.</p><br>
<p>The Zion Church was organized in Brownsville on August 25, 1832 by Reverend John Chilton, who was the first Episcopal priest ordained in Tennessee, and by Reverend Thomas Wright. The congregation worshiped in the Haywood County Courthouse until construction of this church began in 1854. The church was largely completed in 1857 or 1858; its tower was built, and its altar and lectern were installed in 1868 or 1869. The church was consecrated as Zion Church on March 15, 1874. Its name was changed to Christ Church in 1895 to distinguish itself from two other Zion churches in Haywood County. The church was renovated in 1969 to install air conditioning and a parish house.</p><br>
<p>Barrs Chapel C.M.E. Church is a historic district at 5560 Briarpatch Lake Road in the Midway community of Henry County, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Contributing properties in the historic district include the Barrs Chapel Church building, constructed in 1953; Barrs Chapel School, built in 1906; and Barrs Chapel Church Cemetery, which dates to around 1870. The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Zion Church and Cemetery  is a historic church building near Elkhorn, Henry County, Tennessee, United States. It was built sometime between 1872 and 1899, most likely in 1893, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is the only surviving building in the "Old 23rd District" of Henry County, an extinct community since 1944.</p><br>
<p>This building might be confused with Mount Zion Church located approximately twenty miles south near Big Sandy, Benton County, Tennessee, which was destroyed by fire in the 1990s, possibly 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The building is on a small, remote peninsula colloquially referred to as the "Old 23rd District." Today, this land is part of the Big Sandy Unit of the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge. Between about 1821 and 1944, a small community of families lived and farmed there. Besides farming, the community produced timber and lumber, railroad cross ties and cleaned mussel shells for the button-making industry. The remote location also made moonshining quite lucrative. In the community, there were two churches, two or three stores, a sawmill and a post office at various times.</p><br>
<p>In 1938, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began construction of Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee River. Impounding the river meant that flood waters would consume a large part of the community, so in 1940, TVA began buying out property and moving all families out of the area. Buildings below the flood level were given to their prior owners and buildings above the flood level were auctioned off. All buildings had to be moved out by a certain date after which TVA burned what remained. Timber below the flood level was cut and burned on a tight schedule, preventing much of its use to sawmillers. Cemeteries that would be flooded or whose access would be flooded were surveyed, next of kin contacted, and decisions made on removal and relocation or remaining in place.</p><br>
<p>The Mt. Zion Church building and cemetery exist well above the flood level therefore they enjoyed some special treatment. When TVA purchased the site, an agreement was made with the church trustees to leave the building standing and allow the congregation to meet there annually for a homecoming.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mt. Zion Church may have first met in 1829. It petitioned to and was accepted by the Western District Baptist Association in 1853.</p><br>
<p>The first church building was a log structure built on land donated by James Monroe Gray. It stood across the road from the current building and was also used as a school. It was torn down sometime between 1890 and 1900.</p><br>
<p>Land for the current building was donated by Rhoda Gray McDaniel, daughter of James Monroe Gray. In the Pictorial History of the Old 23rd District, Larry T. Perry states that the current church was built in 1897, however the National Register of Historical Places has listed 1893. Entries in the Western District Association minutes list also 1872, 1896 and 1899 as dates of construction for the current building.</p><br>
<p>Pastors included pillars of the local community such as James Monroe Gray, Buck Williams and Frank Robbins but also W. W. Dickerson, who lived about 50 mi away in Murray, Kentucky. Dickerson served Mt. Zion for 18 years and never lived within the church community. Every Saturday, he would come to Paris where he was met by a member of the congregation and taken back to the community. He would spend the night with a church family, preach on Sunday morning and then leave on Sunday afternoon with some farm produce given by church members.</p><br>
<p>In 1896 and 1938, the Western District Association held their annual conferences at the Mt. Zion church.</p><br>
<p>By 1943, the church was without a pastor and in the process of disbanding. TVA purchased the church building and the 2.7 acre on which it stood for $1006. They agreed with the church trustees, Isham Robbins, T. J. Fielder and W. C. Flowers, to leave the building standing and to allow the congregation to meet there annually for a homecoming. The last report was sent to the Association in 1944.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Zion Church had an irregular representation and report in the Association minutes. However spotty these reports may be, they are the most tangible way to understand the size and impact the church had upon its community. The following aggregate data is taken from Perry&#39;s book.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The Mt. Zion cemetery is located just behind, to the west of the church building. It is surrounded by a chain link fence and is regularly cared for. As of April 2007, there were 222 graves known. Burials still occur there.</p><br>
<p>Christ Temple AME Zion Church, also known as Belmont Annex Fellowship Hall, is a historic African-American church at 235 E. Meeting Street in Dandridge, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s building was originally located in southwestern Dandridge, immediately behind the Bethel Presbyterian Church. It was built circa 1888. In 1912 the congregation was rededicated as Christ Temple AME Zion, and the name and date were recorded on a rectangular marble stone installed in the foundation.</p><br>
<p>In 1935 the church was relocated when its site was acquired by the Jefferson County Board of Education to make room for construction of a new white-only segregated school that was to be built through a New Deal program. The school board bought the site at East Meeting Street and Lake Drive from an African-American Missionary Baptist congregation, and traded that property to the Christ Temple AME Zion congregation in exchange for the AME Zion churchs site, so the new school could be built on the former AME Zion church property. The churchs building was moved to the new site and rebuilt; the rebuilt building included parts of the 1888 building, but likely contained some new materials and elements. It is a single-story gable-front church building on a brick foundation, with weatherboard siding and a metal-covered roof. It has an arched recessed entranced with two-pane square windows on either side. There is a wood ventilation grille above the entrance at the gable point of the facade.</p><br>
<p>The church ended regular operations in 2002, when only five active members remained in the congregation. Its building became an annex of Belmont AME Zion Church, which is located on Swannsylvania Road in Jefferson County.</p><br>
<p>The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. At the time of the listing, there were plans to remove carpet, fake pine paneling, and a dropped ceiling that had been installed in the church interior around 1970.</p><br>
<p>Asbury United Methodist Church, formerly known as Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is a historic church in Knoxville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church is named for English Methodist evangelist Francis Asbury, who is credited with disseminating Methodism in the United States in late 18th and early 19th centuries, and who on November 2, 1800, led the first Methodist worship service in East Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church sits on land that was donated in 1855 by the Huffaker family. The church building underwent its last major renovation in 1898. The Gothic revival architecture has been largely unaltered since that time. Subsequent additions include a backlighted painting of Jesus; an organ, piano, and chimes; a parsonage and Sunday school built in 1938; and a fellowship hall built in 1949.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist Church in America divided over the issue of slavery in 1845. For many years before the 1939 merger that formed the United Methodist Church, two separate Methodist groups held services in the Asbury church, with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, meeting for worship in the morning on Sunday and the Methodist Episcopal Church meeting in the afternoon.</p><br>
<h2>National Register listing</h2><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The National Register nomination referred to the "inspirational feeling" imparted by the Gothic revival architecture, the "sense of power" imparted by the church&#39;s steep gabled roof and pronounced arches, and the "sense of strength and stability" conveyed by the square bell tower, which has a bellcast roof.</p><br>
<p>Lincoln Park United Methodist Church is a historic church at 3120 Pershing Street in Knoxville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church is a brick-veneered frame building that was built in 1926. The identity of its architect is not known, but the design suggests the work of Charles I. Barber. The entrance to the building is framed by columns with Doric capitals. Interior furnishings include oak pews, stained glass windows, a coffered ceiling over the sanctuary, and an altar balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Sacred Heart of Jesus Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on Berger Street in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in 1869-70 for German Catholics settling in the Lawrenceburg area. The land for the church was purchased by the Cincinnati Homestead Society. Father Henry Hueser was the first priest; initially services were held in his house. The first church building was a frame building completed in 1872. The church&#39;s present brick building was completed in 1887, at which time the earlier frame church was converted into a school. A new two-story school building was constructed in 1912, and stood for fifty years until it was replaced with a newer structure. A gymnasium was added to the school in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Sacred Heart Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on Church Street in Loretto, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was formed in 1871 by Catholics of German ancestry who had come from the Cincinnati area to settle in Lawrence County, Tennessee. The first priest was J. H. Hueser, who had been sent to Tennessee from Indiana in 1869 to become the first priest in Lawrence County. After working in Lawrenceburg, in 1871 he moved 14 mi south to help establish a new settlement called Glynnrock (later named Loretto). The parish residence that he built in 1871 was used for Mass from October 1871 to February 1872, while a new frame building was being built to serve as a combined church and school. The church&#39;s current brick building replaced that first church. It was started in 1910 and dedicated in May 1912. In 1984 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on Spring Street in St. Joseph, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The Roman Catholic church in St. Joseph was established in 1872. Its first church building was a small</p><br>
<p>frame structure located near the current church. It housed a parochial school for many years and was being used for storage as of 1984.</p><br>
<p>The current church building is a large structure built in 1885 by the church&#39;s parishioners from ashlar cut stone that they had quarried at a nearby site. It has a stucco exterior and a square bell tower with a short octagonal steeple that is roofed with tin shingles. It has an unusually elaborate interior that is largely the work of John Sliemers, who served as the local parish priest from 1901 to 1903 and from 1914 to 1934. Both the main altar and side altars have elaborate carvings, while lathe-turned balusters support the chancel rail and the rear gallery. Religious scenes are depicted in stained-glass windows and in paintings on the interior walls.</p><br>
<p>The 1885 church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
