{"nrhp_refnum":"02000985","name":"Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"800 and 803 Sixteenth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.10944000100005,"lon":-79.78001909899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Social History","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Presbyterian church complex and adjoining historic cemetery on a 6.69-acre site on Sixteenth Street in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The brick sanctuary dates from 1827 and the site was acquired in 1768.","why_significant":"The 1827 brick church is described as probably the first brick church built by a rural Presbyterian congregation in North Carolina, and believed to be the earliest surviving brick rural church of any denomination in the state. The site reflects the social history of a Scotch-Irish community, and its cemetery holds gravestones from 1775 onward. The church also shows the congregation's growth through later Colonial Revival expansions.","narrative":"Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Cemetery occupy a shaded 6.69-acre property in Greensboro, North Carolina, on land the congregation first acquired in 1768. The centerpiece is a brick church completed in 1827, built by member Jacob Albright with help from Joseph Kirkpatrick. It replaced earlier log and frame meeting houses that stood in what is now the cemetery. Over the twentieth century the sanctuary was updated in the Colonial Revival style, gaining a Tuscan portico, flanking two-story educational buildings joined by arcades, and a northward extension in 1956. The cemetery contains gravestones dating from 1775, including slate and marble tablets, work signed by Fayetteville carver George Lauder, and family markers for local families. The property matters because the 1827 church is considered the first brick church of a rural Presbyterian congregation in North Carolina and the earliest surviving rural brick church in the state. It also records the long continuity of a Scotch-Irish community.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Jacob Albright (contractor), assisted by Joseph Kirkpatrick","architectural_style":"Federal; Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a church with church-related residence, social/civic use and active cemetery; burials continue.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.151656-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/20/7206/47720620/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000985.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000985/d301b5cf0c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000985/d301b5cf0c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rhpotter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Original_portion_of_Buffalo_Presbyterian_Church.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhpotter</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Original_portion_of_Buffalo_Presbyterian_Church.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720620","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Presbyterian_Church_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4985817"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/buffalo-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery-02000985/"}