{"nrhp_refnum":"10000445","name":"St. Peter's Episcopal Church","other_names":["The New Saint James Holiness Church of Christ Disciples"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1625 Brown Ave","address_restricted":false,"city":"Norfolk","county":"Norfolk","state":"VA","lat":36.84381174200007,"lon":-76.27340902799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame Carpenter Gothic Revival church at 1625 Brown Avenue in the Brambleton section of Norfolk, Virginia, built in 1886, with a fellowship hall (originally the parish house) added in 1912.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church embodies distinctive characteristics of the Gothic Revival style and reflects design ideas from Richard Upjohn's pattern book for wooden rural churches. It is the only one of six parishes descended from St. Paul's Episcopal Church to keep its frame structure. The form also links it to the Dyson and Bramble families and to Norfolk's racial integration movement of the 1950s.","narrative":"Built in 1886 in Norfolk's Brambleton neighborhood, this wooden church at 1625 Brown Avenue is a Carpenter Gothic Revival building clad in vertical swamp cypress board and batten siding over a brick foundation. The cruciform sanctuary has arched stained-glass windows, arched doors, an arched chancel, and mahogany scissor trusses inside. A fellowship hall, first called the parish house, was added in 1912 and continues the Gothic theme with arched timber pillars and a quatrefoil window. Beneath the hall are footstones thought to belong to a Dyson family cemetery that predates the church. The architect is unknown, but the building's plain construction, materials, and details echo Richard Upjohn's pattern book for inexpensive wooden rural churches. It is the only one of six parishes descended from St. Paul's Episcopal Church to keep its frame structure. Its congregation left Brambleton in 1959, and the building later passed to a different congregation. Its significance rests on architecture, with a period of 1886 to 1912.","period_of_significance":"1886-1912","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late-19th Century: Carpenter Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a religious facility by a congregation named The New Saint James Holiness Church of Christ Disciples; some slate shingles on the fellowship hall have fallen away and a small room above the kitchen is inaccessible because of a poor stairwell.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.319204-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/6821/41682109/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/10000445.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000445/028fb7bd8e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000445/028fb7bd8e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_Avenue_in_Norfolk,_St._Peter%27s_Episcopal_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_Avenue_in_Norfolk,_St._Peter%27s_Episcopal_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682109","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Norfolk,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16900613"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/norfolk/st-peters-episcopal-church-10000445/"}