{"nrhp_refnum":"87002597","name":"Christ Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"120 E. Edenton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.781152905000056,"lon":-78.65971424199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-12-23","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1987-12-23","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Christ Episcopal Church at 120 East Edenton Street in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a granite Gothic Revival church designed by Richard Upjohn. Construction began with the cornerstone in 1848, and a detached bell tower followed in 1859-1861.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Christ Church as one of the first Gothic Revival churches in the Southern states and a model for the style in the region. It is described as a consistent application of the Early English style and as the first and only stone Gothic Revival church in North Carolina derived from an English original. It is also cited as one of Richard Upjohn's finest works in the Gothic style.","narrative":"Christ Episcopal Church stands at 120 East Edenton Street in Raleigh, beside Capitol Square. Richard Upjohn designed it in the Early English Gothic style after Bishop Levi Ives asked for a neat Gothic church seating about 600 people. Local granite, worked by Raleigh stonemasons, forms the thick walls, and lancet windows, buttresses and a red tile roof complete the exterior. Inside, the Latin cross plan has galleries, Caen limestone altar and reredos installed in 1915, and a hammer-beam roof. The cornerstone was laid in 1848, and a free-standing stone bell tower with a broach spire, joined to the church by a Galilee porch, was finished in 1861. Hobart Upjohn, Richard's grandson, later designed the parish house and chapel. The nomination holds that the building is among the earliest Gothic Revival churches in the South and the only stone example in North Carolina modeled on an English parish church, and it ranks among Upjohn's finest Gothic works.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Richard Upjohn (1802-1878) and Hobart Upjohn (1876-1949); stonemasons James Puttick, Robert Findlater and James Martindale","architectural_style":"Early English Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and unaltered on its original site; occupied and in religious use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.2466-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7188/47718818/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87002597_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002597/f092c104a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002597/f092c104a6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Willthacheerleader18 at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christepiscopalravenscroftchurch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Willthacheerleader18 at en.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:Christepiscopalravenscroftchurch.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718818","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Episcopal_Church_(Raleigh,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5108878"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/christ-episcopal-church-87002597/"}