{"nrhp_refnum":"79003340","name":"First Presbyterian Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"111 W. Ash St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Goldsboro","county":"Wayne County","state":"NC","lat":35.386272047000034,"lon":-77.99700755299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story stuccoed Greek Revival church at 111 West Ash Street in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina, built in 1856 for the newly formed First Presbyterian congregation and now used by the Christian Science Society. No architect or builder is recorded.","why_significant":"The church is argued to be one of the finest and best-preserved Greek Revival churches in North Carolina, a type rarely built or surviving in the state. Its distyle in antis portico reflects mid-nineteenth century pattern books and the Town and Davis design for West Presbyterian Church in New York. It is also one of very few surviving antebellum buildings in Goldsboro and is tied to the growth of Presbyterianism in the 1850s.","narrative":"Built in 1856 on a lot donated by trustee Willis Hall, this small stuccoed church at West Ash and James Streets in Goldsboro was the first home of the town's Presbyterian congregation. Its facade has a distyle in antis portico with Tuscan columns, a monumental pediment, pilasters and a louvered wooden cupola. Inside are a simple temple-form room, a pressed tin ceiling, an Estey organ given in 1926 and memorial stained glass windows honoring early local families. No architect is recorded, but the design resembles pattern-book models and the West Presbyterian Church in New York. Greek Revival churches of this full type are rare in North Carolina, and none are known in masonry. The Presbyterians moved to a new complex in 1952, and a Boston architect involved with Colonial Williamsburg urged that the building be saved. The Christian Science Society bought it in 1953 and has kept the original design intact. It is among the few antebellum buildings left in Goldsboro.","period_of_significance":"1856","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in excellent condition; used as a Church of Christ, Scientist since its 1953 purchase.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.239387-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7228/47722827/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79003340.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003340/fa51df55ee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003340/fa51df55ee-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Msgt programmer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Presbyterian_Church_of_Goldsboro.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Msgt programmer</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:First_Presbyterian_Church_of_Goldsboro.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722827","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presbyterian_Church_(Goldsboro,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5453579"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wayne-county/first-presbyterian-church-79003340/"}