{"nrhp_refnum":"04000038","name":"Lomax African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church","other_names":["000-1148"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2704 24th Rd. S","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Arlington County","state":"VA","lat":38.84754274100004,"lon":-77.08221014099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-02-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick Gothic Revival church built in 1922 at 2704 24th Road South in the Nauck area of Arlington, Virginia, with an associated cemetery (ca. 1894), a 1951 parsonage and a 1966 education building.","why_significant":"The church is described as the oldest extant African American church in Arlington County and the only A.M.E. Zion church in the county. Its congregation began in Freedman's Village in 1863 and moved to Nauck in 1874. It is significant under Criterion A for African American heritage and religion.","narrative":"Lomax A.M.E. Zion Church is a one-story brick church at 2704 24th Road South in the Nauck neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. Built in 1922 in the Gothic Revival style, it has a front-gable roof, two unequal crenellated towers, brick buttresses and lancet-arched stained-glass windows. A 1966 education building, a 1951 Cape Cod parsonage and a cemetery with about 107 marked burials dating from 1894 to 1982 share the site. The congregation began as Wesley Zion Church in 1863 in Freedman's Village, a settlement for formerly enslaved people, and moved to the Nauck area in 1874. The present building is the third church on the congregation's site. It is described as the oldest surviving African American church in Arlington County and the only A.M.E. Zion church there. Its period of significance runs from about 1894 to 1953, reflecting its role in African American heritage and religion. Local craftsmen, including carpenter Thomas West and bricklayer Leonard Gray, built it.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1894-1953","architect_builder":"Thomas West, carpenter; Leondard Gray, bricklayer; Willard Gant","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still in use as a church; the form lists current functions as religious facility, cemetery and church-related residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.246821-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/6796/41679630/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000038.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000038/08f2d46d99-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000038/08f2d46d99-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Slowking4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lomax-ame-church050.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Slowking4</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:Lomax-ame-church050.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679630","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomax_African_Methodist_Episcopal_Zion_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6669298"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/arlington-county/lomax-african-methodist-episcopal-zion-church-04000038/"}