First Presbyterian Church (Lincolnton, North Carolina)

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Location114 W. Main St., Lincolnton, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°28′16″N81°15′31″W / 35.47111°N 81.25861°W / 35.47111; -81.25861
Arealess than one acre
Built1917
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
MPS Churches and Church-Related Cemeteries in Lincolnton MPS
NRHP reference No. 94001455 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 14, 1994

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. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Davyd Foard Hood (June 1994). "First Presbyterian Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.