Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery explained

Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
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Location:7407 Steele Creek Rd., near Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.1842°N -80.9564°W
Architect:Norris, H.J.; Bigham Workshop
Architecture:Gothic Revival
Added:February 21, 1991
Refnum:91000082

Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was founded in 1760 and the current sanctuary was built in 1889, and is a rectangular, Gothic Revival style brick building. It is five bays wide and six bays deep, and has pointed-arched sash windows, shallow buttresses, and steeply pitched roof parapet. The cemetery contains approximately 1,700 headstones, with the oldest dating to 1763.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Richard Mattson and William Huffman. Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 1990 . pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.