{"nrhp_refnum":"74001343","name":"St. John's Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Green St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.05511786300008,"lon":-78.87693747399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. John's Episcopal Church is a stuccoed brick Gothic Revival church on Green Street in downtown Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, about one block north of the Market House. The original church dates from 1817-1819 and was rebuilt on the same walls in 1831-1833.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the two oldest church buildings in Fayetteville and the home of the city's first Episcopal congregation. Its unusual design resulted from rebuilding on the brick shell left after the Great Fire of 1831. The 1830s Gothic Revival gallery, clustered colonnettes, trefoil railing and arched plaster ceiling are singled out as interior distinctions.","narrative":"St. John's Episcopal Church stands on Green Street in downtown Fayetteville, with Cross Creek along its rear boundary. The congregation was organized in April 1817, and its first brick church was consecrated in 1819. That building burned in the Great Fire of May 1831, which destroyed more than 400 buildings in the town. The church was rebuilt on the same walls and consecrated again in January 1833. The result is an unusual stuccoed brick building with square corner towers topped by clusters of turrets, a crenellated gable and a pedimented entrance pavilion. An 1832 newspaper review credited an architect named Drummond and praised the Gothic style as new to the region. Inside, a continuous gallery rests on clustered wooden colonnettes, and a shallow pointed plaster ceiling survives from the 1830s. An early twentieth century apse and a later parish house were added. The nomination describes it as a local landmark and a symbol of continuity.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates 1819, 1833)","architect_builder":"Architect Mr. Drummond (named in an 1832 newspaper account of the rebuilt church); builder of the 1817-1819 church not known","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent and altered; the church continues in regular use for worship.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.395632-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/7198/47719838/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/74001343.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001343/1f4043f131-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001343/1f4043f131-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Gerry Dincher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._John%27s_Episcopal_Church_FAY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerry Dincher</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._John%27s_Episcopal_Church_FAY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000779","name":"Fayetteville Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/fayetteville-downtown-historic-district-99000779/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719838","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Fayetteville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588682"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/st-johns-episcopal-church-74001343/"}