{"nrhp_refnum":"78001926","name":"Hawfields Presbyterian Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Mebane on NC 119","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mebane","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.05775112400005,"lon":-79.3062060700228,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Presbyterian church complex in rural Alamance County near Mebane, North Carolina, centered on a brick Greek Revival church built in 1852-1855, with an early 1920s classroom addition, a mid-nineteenth century frame session house, and a cemetery.","why_significant":"The congregation dates to the mid-eighteenth century and grew from Scotch-Irish settlement of the Piedmont. The church is tied to early Presbyterian ministers such as Henry Patillo and William Paisley and to the politically prominent Scott family. The 1850s building is a carefully preserved example of vernacular Greek Revival church architecture with Flemish bond brickwork.","narrative":"Hawfields Presbyterian Church is a rural congregation complex near Mebane whose core is a brick temple-form church built between 1852 and 1855. Members donated much of the labor and materials, and the handmade bricks are laid in Flemish bond with restrained Greek Revival detail, including a pedimented front, tall sixteen-over-sixteen windows and a interior gallery on fluted metal columns. A two-story classroom addition from the early 1920s, a small frame session house, and the cemetery across the road complete the historic portions. The congregation traces its origins to the mid-eighteenth century, when Scotch-Irish settlers arrived from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Ministers such as Henry Patillo and William Paisley shaped its early history, and the Orange Presbytery first met here in 1770. The Scott family, including two governors, were longtime members. Hawfields later served as mother church to seven nearby congregations and remains an active church.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition, and in religious use; the congregation continues to worship there and has added modern buildings around the nineteenth-century core.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.204342-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/7188/47718870/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/78001926.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001926/3331f3d474-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001926/3331f3d474-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Indy beetle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawfields_Presbyterian_Church_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Indy beetle</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawfields_Presbyterian_Church_02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718870","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawfields_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5684742"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/hawfields-presbyterian-church-78001926/"}