Category: architecture

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Historical Background
Many of the churches of Allegheny were constructed around the late 19th and early 20th
century when access to sawmills encouraged a boom of church building. The earliest
surviving church building is the 1870 Piney Creek Baptist Church. Baptists and
Methodist churches dominate the landscape.” Typically these turn of the century
churches are plain, front-gabled, rectangular structures clad in weatherboard. Many of
the churches have projecting vestibules. Baptist Churches are more plain that Methodist.
The Antioch Methodist Church in Roaring Gap is one of a few churches with steeples.
Two churches stand out as more elaborate than most: Mt. Carmel Baptist Church and
Glade Valley Presbyterian. With their Gothic-influenced windows and bell towers, these
two churches stand out.
The Antioch Methodist Church in Roaring Gap was established on this site in 1850.
Among the early church leaders was the Reverend Morgan Bryant, renowned preacher in
Western North Carolina, and Reverend Thomas Smith. By 1880 the congregation had
diminished and the original log structure was in a state of disrepair. About 1895 the men
of the community led by John Simmons and his brother Thomas built the wood frame
church that stands today.32
The cemetery serves as the final resting-place for the first settlers of Alleghany County,
Absolom and Agnes Smith, who came to the area between 1770 and 1775. The Smiths
eloped to this area from Norfolk, Virginia, where Absolom was indentured to a wealthy
landowner. When Absolom fell in love with the landowner’s daughter, Agnes, the two
fled to North Carolina where Virginia laws had no jurisdiction.–NCDOT

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Martin’s Brandon Parish was formed in the early 17th century and derives its name from the nearby Martin’s Brandon Plantation patented by Captain John Martin in 1616. The current church was designed by noted Baltimore architect Niernsee & Neilson and built in 1855.-Wikipedia

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St.Paul’s Episcopal, Built in 1886, the only active church of Southwark Parish that dates to 1647.

I’ve been asked why take pictures of churches. many reasons. one of them, in America we tear down most buildings once they are middle aged because? Because we build poorly, because we are short-sighted idiots… supply me more reasons! Being that the church is God’s house, we exercise care, not wishing to anger God, a higher percentage of these structures survive.

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Waddell Memorial Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Rapidan, Orange County, Virginia. It was built in 1874, and is a Carpenter Gothic frame building covered with board-and-batten siding. It features a three-stage tower at the gable end with a ground level with an equilateral-arched doorway, a middle level with a rose window, and a belfry with double pointed windows.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is located in the Rapidan Historic District.–Wikipedia