{"nrhp_refnum":"05000351","name":"Everetts Christian Church","other_names":["Everetts Church of Christ"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"109 S. Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Everetts","county":"Martin County","state":"NC","lat":35.833333183000036,"lon":-77.17026324599993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-04-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, brick-veneered Romanesque Revival church on Broad Street near Ayers Street in the town of Everetts, Martin County, North Carolina, built in 1922 for the Disciples of Christ congregation.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an intact, vernacular example of Romanesque Revival design among Martin County's Disciples of Christ churches, with plain brick and modest embellishment. It also reflects the early twentieth-century movement to bring popular national styles into North Carolina churches, and its interior retains an Akron plan with folding partition doors between the sanctuary and Sunday School rooms.","narrative":"Built in 1922 on Broad Street in Everetts, this one-story brick church was dedicated in the fall of 1923 and designed for about three hundred worshippers. Its front-gable façade has three arched stained-glass windows with corbelled brick hoods, and a two-story bell tower shelters the entry. The church is regarded as a plain, cost-effective version of Romanesque Revival design, using modest brick work and little ornament, in keeping with earlier Disciples of Christ churches in the state. Its sanctuary keeps a pressed-tin ceiling and original trim, and folding paneled doors separate the sanctuary from three Sunday School classrooms in an Akron plan. The congregation formed in 1921 after a revival led by Reverend James M. Perry, and the building is one of only a few Martin County Disciples of Christ churches of this period that remain architecturally intact. It is significant as an example of the incorporation of national architectural trends into small-town North Carolina churches.","period_of_significance":"1923","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Romanesque Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.717171-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/7211/47721197/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05000351.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"14000988","name":"Everetts Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/everetts-historic-district-14000988/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721197","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everetts_Church_of_Christ","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707922"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/martin-county/everetts-christian-church-05000351/"}