{"nrhp_refnum":"70000469","name":"Christ Church","other_names":["See Also:78001978"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"120 E. Edenton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.780884048000075,"lon":-78.63732210399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-07-28","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1987-12-23","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Christ Church is an Episcopal church building at 120 East Edenton Street in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, designed by Richard Upjohn in the Early English Gothic style and built between 1848 and 1852 of local granite.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an important example of Richard Upjohn's Early Gothic Revival style. The early twentieth-century parish house and chapel by Upjohn's grandson Hobart Upjohn are noted as a careful, skillful complement to the older building rather than a copy of the then-fashionable Late Gothic Revival.","narrative":"Christ Church, an Episcopal church at 120 East Edenton Street in Raleigh, was designed by Richard Upjohn, architect of Trinity Church in New York. The congregation bought the land in 1826 and built a first church there in 1829. As the parish grew, Upjohn was invited in 1848 to design a larger building. Three Raleigh stonemasons, assisted by slaves, built it of rough local granite with a red tile roof. The cornerstone was laid on December 28, 1848, the building was finished in 1852, and it was consecrated in 1853. A freestanding bell tower followed in 1859-1861. Inside, a hammer-beam roof is among its most notable features, and a limestone altar and reredos were installed in 1915. Hobart Upjohn, the architect's grandson, designed a parish house and chapel completed in 1921, matching the older church in scale and texture. The property is valued as an important example of Upjohn's Early Gothic Revival work.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Richard Upjohn (architect); stonemasons James Puttick, Robert Findlater and James Martindale; Hobart Upjohn (parish house and chapel)","architectural_style":"Early English Gothic / Early Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and unaltered, on its original site; occupied and in religious use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.577953-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/7226/47722613/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/70000469.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000469/f092c104a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000469/f092c104a6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Willthacheerleader18 at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christepiscopalravenscroftchurch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Willthacheerleader18 at en.wikipedia</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:Christepiscopalravenscroftchurch.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78001978","name":"Capitol Area Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/capitol-area-historic-district-78001978/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722613","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Episcopal_Church_(Raleigh,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5108878"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/christ-church-70000469/"}