Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery explained

Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery
Location:Wilmington, North Carolina
Coordinates:34.2139°N -77.8264°W
Built:1835
Architecture:Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Vernacular Greco-Gothic
Added:October 16, 1986
Refnum:86002879

Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery, also known as Lebanon Chapel, is a historic Episcopal chapel and cemetery located on the grounds of Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was built about 1835, and is a one-story, three bay by three bay, gable-roofed, rectangular building in a vernacular Greco-Gothic. It measures 26 feet wide and 37 feet deep, and is sheathed in weatherboard. It was restored in 1974. The cemetery contains 138 burials dating from 1815 to 2016.[1] It is the oldest known surviving church in New Hanover County.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2215454/memorial-search?orderby=d-&page=1#sr-158035904 Mt. Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery
  2. Web site: Edward F. Turberg. Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 1986. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.