{"nrhp_refnum":"80002864","name":"Coddle Creek Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Session House and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1146","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mount Mourne","county":"Iredell County","state":"NC","lat":35.51037852150003,"lon":-80.76733795719272,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame Associate Reformed Presbyterian church with a detached session house and a large churchyard cemetery, located in the far southeastern corner of Iredell County near the Cabarrus County line, Mount Mourne, North Carolina. The present church was built in 1884 as the third church on the site of a congregation established in 1753.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the congregation was the first Presbyterian congregation in Iredell County and among the first Associate Reformed Presbyterian congregations in North Carolina. It also argues that the 1884 church blends late Greek Revival and Italianate design in a distinctive country church form, that the session house follows regional mid-nineteenth-century patterns, and that the cemetery's carved gravestones and wrought-iron gate by a local blacksmith are important examples of local artisanry.","narrative":"Frame church and cemetery in the far southeastern corner of Iredell County, North Carolina, near the Cabarrus County line. The present church was completed in 1884 as the third building on a site used by a congregation founded around 1753 and later known as Coddle Creek A. R. P. Church. Its gable-end entrance tower, bracketed eaves and segmental arched sash windows combine late Italianate and Greek Revival features in a simplified country form. Beside it stands a one-story frame session house from roughly the same period, similar to those at Centre and Bethesda Presbyterian Churches. The churchyard holds about 250 markers, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gravestones with carvings by local artisans. Its wrought-iron gate with granite posts is attributed by local tradition to a blacksmith named Freeze. The church is regarded as an early center of organized religion in the county and a notable local example of its building type.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Italianate with Greek Revival elements","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Both structures have been well-maintained through the years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.117058-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/7180/47718092/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002864.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002864/c838897f98-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002864/c838897f98-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cdtew at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coddle_Creek_ARP.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cdtew at English 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:Coddle_Creek_ARP.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718092","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coddle_Creek_Associate_Reformed_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5139959"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/iredell-county/coddle-creek-associate-reformed-presbyterian-church-session-house-and-cemetery-80002864/"}