First Presbyterian Church (Fayetteville, North Carolina) Explained

First Presbyterian Church
Location:Ann and Bow Sts., Fayetteville, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.0533°N -78.8756°W
Built:1816, 1832
Architect:Davis, A. J.; Hobart Upjohn
Architecture:Federal
Added:April 30, 1976
Refnum:76001317

First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Ann and Bow Streets in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1832, incorporating parts of the brick walls of an earlier (1816) church that burned in 1831. It is a two-story gabled brick building, five bays wide and five wider bays deep. The chancel, portico, steeple and most of the interior woodwork are later additions and replacements. The hexastyle portico and steeple were designed by Hobart Upjohn in 1922.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ruth Little-Stokes. First Presbyterian Church . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . November 1975. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.