{"nrhp_refnum":"84000556","name":"Jamesville Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery","other_names":["Jamesville Women's Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E side of NC 171","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jamesville","county":"Martin County","state":"NC","lat":35.80992261600005,"lon":-76.89716077799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame former Primitive Baptist church with an adjoining cemetery on NC 171 in Jamesville, Martin County, North Carolina, built between 1865 and 1870 on land given by Clayton Moore.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the building to the history of the Primitive Baptists and the religious life of Jamesville from about 1865 to 1953. It is also linked to Clayton Moore, a wealthy planter and Primitive Baptist minister. It is argued to be a well-preserved example of a vernacular gable-front rural church with double entrances and a boxed cornice with returns.","narrative":"This small frame church on NC 171 in Jamesville served Primitive Baptists for decades before becoming a women's clubhouse. Built between 1865 and 1870 on land given by Clayton Moore, a wealthy planter and church elder who appears to have built it himself, it replaced the congregation's earlier Picot meeting house. Moore's plantation home had been burned by Union troops during the Civil War, and he promised the congregation a new church in exchange for the old one. The building is a rectangular, gable-front structure with weatherboard siding, a standing seam tin roof, two front entrances, a louvered gable vent and a boxed cornice with returns. Services continued until the early 1950s. In 1953 the last deacon gave the church and lot to the Jamesville Women's Club, which converted the rear into a kitchen and bathroom and still maintains it. A cemetery behind the church holds Moore and congregation members and is owned by Moore's descendants.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown (Clayton Moore appears to be the builder)","architectural_style":"Vernacular gable-front rural church form","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and used as the headquarters of the Jamesville Women's Club, which acquired it in 1953; the exterior is described as well preserved, with interior alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.320526-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/7212/47721209/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84000556.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721209","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamesville_Primitive_Baptist_Church_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707989"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/martin-county/jamesville-primitive-baptist-church-and-cemetery-84000556/"}