{"nrhp_refnum":"82001815","name":"Woolen Mills Chapel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1819 E. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.02192630300004,"lon":-78.45634551799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small carpenter Gothic chapel at 1819 East Market Street in Charlottesville, Virginia, built in 1887 for the Charlottesville Woolen Mills community, with a 1908 addition of Sunday School classrooms.","why_significant":"The chapel was built by employees of the Charlottesville Woolen Mills on land donated by the company's founder. It is a well-preserved example of late nineteenth century vernacular church construction. Its carpenter Gothic details and 50-foot octagonal bell tower are singled out as distinctive.","narrative":"Built in 1887 at 1819 East Market Street in Charlottesville, this small church grew out of the religious movement of 1886, which inspired employees of the Charlottesville Woolen Mills to build a chapel for their community. H.C. Marchant, the mills' founder and president, deeded the lot for a non-denominational chapel. Public subscription paid for construction, and Boyd and Wash of Charlottesville served as contractors, though community members did much of the work. The chapel was in use by Christmas 1887 and consecrated in May 1888. It has pointed carpenter Gothic doors, windows and shutters, a steeply pitched gable roof, white weatherboard siding, and a 50-foot octagonal green-shingled bell tower. A 1908 addition of Sunday School classrooms on the west side more than doubled its size. No significant alterations have been made since. The building remains a church in good condition and is valued as a well-preserved example of vernacular church construction.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Contractors Boyd and Wash of Charlottesville; much of the work done by members of the immediate community","architectural_style":"Victorian; vernacular carpenter Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and in use as a church; no significant alterations since 1908.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.413634-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/6786/41678661/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82001815.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001815/b06fb670b8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001815/b06fb670b8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cville dog","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woolen_Mills_Chapel,_Charlottesville,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cville dog</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:Woolen_Mills_Chapel,_Charlottesville,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678661","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolen_Mills_Chapel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8033794"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/woolen-mills-chapel-82001815/"}