Lincolnton is a city in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States, within the Charlotte metropolitan area. The population was 10,486 at the 2010 census. Lincolnton is northwest of Charlotte, on the South Fork of the Catawba River. The city is the county seat of Lincoln County, and is the only legally incorporated municipality wholly within the county.
Charles Raper Jonas was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina for ten terms (1953–1973). At the time of his election in 1952, he became the first Republican to represent his state in either house of the U.S. Congress since his own father, Charles A. Jonas, and George M. Pritchard left office in 1931.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1907, is an historic Christian Science church building located at 406-408 Middle Street, in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, in the United States. It was designed in the Classical Revival style by prolific local architect Herbert Woodley Simpson.
Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery is a historic church cemetery associated with the Emanuel United Church of Christ near Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 500 gravestones, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1808. 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
St. Luke'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.
Hobart Brown Upjohn (1876–1949) was an American architect, best known for designing a number of ecclesiastical and educational structures in New York and in North Carolina. He also designed a number of significant private homes. His firm produced a total of about 150 projects, a third of which were in North Carolina.
Henry Emil Bonitz (1872–1921) was an American architect.
Lincoln County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was designed by Raleigh architect James A. Salter and built in 1921. It is three-story, ashlar stone, Classical Revival style building. It has a taller central section flanked by flat roofed wings, matching pedimented hexastyle Doric order porticoes on the front and rear of the center section, and a Doric frieze along its sides.
Lincolnton Recreation Department Youth Center was a historic clubhouse building located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was built as a temporary school about 1921 and renovated and enlarged in 1947. It was a single-story wood-frame building with a truncated hipped roof in the Bungalow / American Craftsman style. It sat on an exposed basement at the rear, with brick, asphalt, and wood as its basic materials. The Center continued to function until 1989, but was demolished in August, 2019.
Methodist Church Cemetery is a historic Methodist cemetery and national historic district located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was established about 1828, and contains the marked graves of some 275 members of the Methodist church, and/or citizens of Lincolnton. The gravestones include notable examples of 19th and early-20th century funerary art. The property was also the site of Lincolnton's Methodist churches and religious worship from about 1822 until 1920.
Old White Church Cemetery, also known as Emanuel Church Cemetery, is a historic cemetery and national historic district located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was established in 1788, and contains the marked graves of some 265 citizens of Lincolnton, with an even larger number of unmarked graves. The oldest marked grave dates to 1801. The gravestones include notable examples of 19th and early-20th century funerary art. It is the oldest burying ground in the town of Lincolnton.
Lincolnton Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It encompasses 62 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects in the central business district of Lincolnton. It includes a variety of commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings dating between about 1900 and 1955. Located in the district are the separately listed Classical Revival style Lincoln County Courthouse and First United Methodist Church. Other notable buildings include the Frank Beal House, Karl L. Lawing House, Reinhardt Building, Carolina First National Bank, Central Candy and Cigar Company, Jonas Building, Wampum Department Stores, Rhodes and Corriher Company building, and Coca-Cola Bottling Company building.
South Aspen Street Historic District is a national historic district in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It encompasses 46 contributing buildings and one contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of town. It includes examples of Greek Revival and Queen Anne style architecture dating between about 1852 and 1950. Buildings include the Wallace H. Alexander House (1852), Banett-Hoyle House (1852), the former Lincoln/Gordon Crowell Memorial Hospital, the former Lincolnton High School, John M. Rhodes House, the David P. Rhodes House, the C. William Rhodes House, and the John D. Abernathy House.
West Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It encompasses 18 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Lincolnton. It includes notable examples of Federal, Greek Revival and Colonial Revival style architecture dating between about 1819 and 1941. Located in the district is the separately listed Shadow Lawn. Other notable buildings include the Michal-Butt-Brown-Pressly House, William H. Michal House, Rouser-Hildebrand-Burgin House, Robert Steve Reinhardt House, and Charles Hoover, Jr., House.
