{"nrhp_refnum":"90000804","name":"Rock Spring Presbyterian Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1824 Piedmont Ave. NE.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.80478136100004,"lon":-84.36806396799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-05-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Tudor Revival-style Presbyterian church at 1824 Piedmont Avenue N.E. in Atlanta, Georgia, just north of the Ansley Park neighborhood. The sanctuary was completed in 1923 to designs by Charles H. Hopson, and a c. 1939 brick manse is included in the nominated property.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a unique Atlanta example of English Vernacular or Tudor Revival design, using half-timbering, a hammerbeam ceiling and native granite. It is also the work of English-born architect Charles H. Hopson. It represents the minority Presbyterian faith in a Baptist and Methodist area and is the last visible remnant of the former Rock Spring community.","narrative":"Modeled on small English country churches, this Presbyterian church on Piedmont Avenue in Atlanta was completed in 1923 to designs by English-born architect Charles H. Hopson, who was an elder in the congregation. The cross-shaped building has a blue-grey granite base, half-timbered and stucco upper walls, an octagonal shingled spire, stained glass windows and a hammerbeam ceiling inside. Local granite was quarried about a mile and a half away, and church members hauled the stone with mule teams. A c. 1939 brick manse is also part of the nominated property. The church is considered significant because no other surviving historic Atlanta church of its era combines these Tudor features, and it is Hopson's only known Tudor Revival work. It also reflects the Presbyterian congregation founded in 1870 in a rural, working-class community that Atlanta's growth largely erased. The church remains the last visible trace of that community and is still in religious use.","period_of_significance":"1923-1940","architect_builder":"Hopson, Charles H. (1865-1941)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a church, the same purpose as its historic function.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.484331-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/90000804.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000804/214ae11ad8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000804/214ae11ad8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Recordsatnight","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_Spring_Presbyterian_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Recordsatnight</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:Rock_Spring_Presbyterian_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208320","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Spring_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15051822"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/rock-spring-presbyterian-church-90000804/"}