{"nrhp_refnum":"07000413","name":"Red House Presbyterian Church","other_names":["Hugh McAden Gravesite","Red House Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13409 NC 119 N","address_restricted":false,"city":"Semora","county":"Caswell County","state":"NC","lat":36.48746913700006,"lon":-79.16253788199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Classical Revival brick church with a partial basement, completed in 1913 on a 6.5-acre tract near Semora, Caswell County, North Carolina. It includes an old church cemetery and the grave of Rev. Hugh McAden; the architect was Hill Carter Linthicum and the builder Henry Fields.","why_significant":"The congregation dates to 1755 and the cemetery holds the grave of Hugh McAden, the first Presbyterian missionary to settle permanently in North Carolina and the first resident minister of the church. The grave is argued to be the only appropriate site directly tied to his productive life. The 1913 building is described as a sophisticated example of Classical Revival design in rural Caswell County.","narrative":"Red House Presbyterian Church is a one-story brick Classical Revival building with a basement, finished in 1913 on a knoll along North Carolina Highway 119 near Semora. It has a pedimented Doric portico, a terra cotta tile roof, twelve opalescent stained glass windows and a sanctuary with queen-post roof trusses. Behind it lies a cemetery of more than two hundred graves, with markers ranging from plain fieldstones to granite obelisks and quartz mausoleums. The congregation traces to 1755 and is described as the second oldest church in Caswell County. Its cemetery holds the grave of Rev. Hugh McAden, a missionary from Pennsylvania who helped found many Presbyterian churches in North Carolina and became the church's first resident minister, serving from 1768 until his death in 1781. The present building is the fourth on the site. It was designed by architect H. C. Linthicum and built by Henry Fields. It was listed for its association with McAden and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1781-1913","architect_builder":"Linthicum, Hill Carter, architect; Fields, Henry, builder","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Church described as in excellent condition with no substantial alteration since 1913; church and cemetery remain in active religious and funerary use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.130432-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/7194/47719481/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07000413.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000413/e12b2cfabf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000413/e12b2cfabf-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_House_Presbyterian_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_House_Presbyterian_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719481","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_House_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7304381"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/caswell-county/red-house-presbyterian-church-07000413/"}