{"nrhp_refnum":"78001976","name":"St. James Episcopal Church and Rectory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of SR 1551 and SR 1555","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kittrell","county":"Vance County","state":"NC","lat":36.221950063000065,"lon":-78.43998643499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small board-and-batten Carpenter Gothic frame church with an adjoining former rectory on less than one acre at Kittrell, Vance County, North Carolina. The church was probably in its present form by its 1878 consecration, and the rectory was built in 1876.","why_significant":"The church was the focus of a small but relatively prosperous group of farmers and prominent local families in the late nineteenth century. Its role grew with Kittrell's prominence as a resort town built around its warm springs and large hotels. After the springs dried up and the hotels were gone, the church remained as perhaps the chief vestige of that era of prosperity.","narrative":"St. James Episcopal Church in Kittrell, Vance County, is a modest Carpenter Gothic building of frame construction on a stone foundation, covered in board-and-batten. It has lancet-arched openings, hood molds, a square belfry, a front vestibule, and a small chapel added to the north end. Inside, a center-aisle plan keeps most of its original fabric, along with late nineteenth-century memorials. Behind it stands an H-plan, one-story rectory built in 1876, now rented out. The exact construction date is unclear. Tradition points to about 1860, but repairs or rebuilding appear to have taken place in the early 1870s, and the church was consecrated in 1878. The congregation drew on prosperous local farmers and prominent families during years when Kittrell was a resort known for its warm springs and large hotels. Once the springs dried up and the hotels were gone, the church remained as a chief survivor of that period. A small congregation still uses it.","period_of_significance":"mid-19th century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Carpenter Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Church is used and maintained by a very small congregation, with services once a month; the former rectory is a rental house owned by the church. Condition is marked good and unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.521134-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7224/47722423/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/78001976.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722423","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Episcopal_Church_and_Rectory_(Kittrell,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588493"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/vance-county/st-james-episcopal-church-and-rectory-78001976/"}