{"nrhp_refnum":"82003516","name":"St. Philip's Episcopal Church","other_names":["St. Philip's Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 65 and 8 and SR 1957","address_restricted":false,"city":"Germantown","county":"Stokes County","state":"NC","lat":36.259721557000034,"lon":-80.23603119099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Philip's Episcopal Church is a small Gothic Revival board-and-batten church on its Main Street lot in the Stokes County community of Germanton, near the Forsyth County line. It was built between 1887 and 1894.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an unusually well-preserved example of the small board-and-batten Gothic Revival churches built across America in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Its interior, with kerosene lamps, a wood stove and original furnishings, remains essentially unchanged, apart from the altar window. The document also notes a congregation that has held regular services since consecration in 1894.","narrative":"Set back on its lot on Main Street in Germanton, St. Philip's Episcopal Church is a wood-framed Gothic Revival building of board-and-batten siding, completed between 1887, when the land was bought, and 1894, when it was consecrated. Its plan is a grouping of simple rectangles and squares: a four-bay nave, a square southeast vestibule and bell tower with a bellcast roof, a chancel to the north and a vestry room at the northeast corner. Lancet doors, stained glass and a rose window mark its Gothic character. The interior is unpainted, with bead-board walls, a pitched ceiling on cross rafters, quatrefoil and lancet details on the chancel furniture, and kerosene lamps, since the building was never electrified. It is regarded as an unusually well-preserved example of the small churches that follow the ideas of Richard Upjohn's Rural Architecture of 1852. Its congregation was small, reaching twenty-two communicants in 1895.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Altered: the altar window is a ca. 1953 replacement, and the building was repaired by a local group from 1979 with a later grant","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.372093-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/86/7222/47722286/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003516.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003516/a4055f4b3a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003516/a4055f4b3a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Armijo1","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Philips_Episcopal_Church,_Germanton,_NC.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Armijo1</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:St_Philips_Episcopal_Church,_Germanton,_NC.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722286","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Philip%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Germanton,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591518"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/stokes-county/st-philips-episcopal-church-82003516/"}