Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church Explained

Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 16, 2011[1]
Designated Other1 Number:128-6271
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:806 Jamison Ave., SE, Roanoke, Virginia
Coordinates:37.2689°N -79.9297°W
Built:-1921
Architect:Cain, Herbert L., Miller, Homer M.
Builder:Clemmer, John L.
Architecture:Late Gothic Revival
Added:August 18, 2011
Refnum:11000551[2]

Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church is a historic church building, located in the Belmont neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. It was built as a Methodist Episcopal church between 1917 and 1921, and is a three-story, brick, late Gothic Revival-style church. It features a tall bell tower, complex roof form, steeply-pitched gables and parapets, large pointed arch windows, crenellated corner towers, buttresses, cast-concrete quatrefoils, and other detailing.[3] Capacity within sight and hearing of the pulpit is 1,000, as the original auditorium (seats 440) was enlarged with an adjoining parlor (75), an adult assembly room (260), and a gallery (225).[4]

In a notice from 1917, H. L. Cain is named the architect of the church building, and the cost of the building was initially budgeted at $50,000.00.[5]

The building was sold in 2003 to the Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge, who used it as their sanctuary; that church has since vacated the building.[6] The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2011.[7] Since 2019, it has also been a contributing structure to the NRHP-listed Belmont Historic District.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 19 March 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 21 September 2013. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Listings. 2011-08-26. Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties . National Park Service.
  3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church . Michael J. Pulice . March 2011. Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=-K1NAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Belmont+Methodist-Episcopal%22+roanoke&pg=PA169 Church and Sunday School Buildings.
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=e8xJAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Belmont+Methodist-Episcopal%22+roanoke&pg=RA1-PA81 Engineering News-Record
  6. Web site: MCC of the Blue Ridge, Roanoke, VA . 2023-11-28 . Mccblueridge . en.
  7. Web site: Virginia Department of Historic Resources . 128-6271 . 2023-12-14 . DHR . en-US.
  8. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Belmont Historic District. Blanton. Alison. Gutshall. Katie. Kronau. Kate. August 2018. Virginia Department of Historic Resources.