California Creek Missionary Baptist Church

California Creek Missionary Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	US 23, near Mars Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°52′25″N82°30′50″W / 35.87361°N 82.51389°W / 35.87361; -82.51389
Area	less than one acre
Built	1917
Architect	Corn, George
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Gothic
NRHP reference No.	84002342 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 12, 1984

California Creek Missionary Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located near Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina. It was built in 1917, and moved to its present location in 1937. It is a Gothic Revival style white frame church with Colonial Revival style decorative elements. It has a cruciform plan and paired principal entrances in corner towers on the front facade. A two-story, brick Sunday School annex was built in 1954. The church was sold to private owners in the late-1970s. ^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. John Flowers and Doug Swaim (April 1984). "California Creek Missionary Baptist Church" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.