{"nrhp_refnum":"94001453","name":"Emanuel United Church of Christ","other_names":["Emanuel Reformed Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"329 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lincolnton","county":"Lincoln County","state":"NC","lat":35.47286808300004,"lon":-81.25287265099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-12-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Late Gothic Revival church at 329 East Main Street in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina, built in 1913 for the Emanuel Reformed congregation, with a 1931 Sunday school addition and a 1970s education building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a small but impressive example of late Gothic Revival design in Lincolnton and Lincoln County, designed by Wilmington architect Henry E. Bonitz. It is presented as the first of four important late Gothic Revival churches built in the county seat between 1913 and 1941, and as the first and only church built solely by the Emanuel Reformed congregation, whose history reaches back to the 1780s.","narrative":"Built in brick in 1913 to a design by Wilmington architect Henry E. Bonitz, this church on East Main Street in Lincolnton is a Late Gothic Revival building with a four-stage corner tower, lancet-arched windows, and cement-capped buttresses. Its red-orange brickwork uses an unusual bond of stretcher courses alternating with Flemish bond. The congregation traces its origins to the 1780s, when Lutheran and Reformed members shared a union church, and it was revived after a fire destroyed that building in 1893. The church was completed in time for Christmas Day 1913. A Sunday school wing was added in 1931. Lightning caused a fire in April 1991 that destroyed much of the roof, and the building was restored with the interior woodwork and beam ceiling replicated from surviving elements. Its significance rests on its architectural design as one of the county's early late Gothic Revival churches, and on its role in the local Reformed Church.","period_of_significance":"1913-1931","architect_builder":"Bonitz, Henry E. (architect); Beam, James L., Jr. (architect, restoration); Howard Construction Company (builder)","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored after a 1991 lightning fire; first services in the restored church were held in 1992.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.858614-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/7181/47718181/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94001453.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001453/a3f4c46761-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001453/a3f4c46761-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RoxylovesHistory","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmanuel_United_Church_of_Christ,_329_E._Main_St.,_Lincolnton,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RoxylovesHistory</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:Emmanuel_United_Church_of_Christ,_329_E._Main_St.,_Lincolnton,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718181","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_United_Church_of_Christ_(Lincolnton,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5369157"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lincoln-county/emanuel-united-church-of-christ-94001453/"}