{"nrhp_refnum":"97001509","name":"Flint Hill Baptist Church","other_names":["VDHR File No. 78-66"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"0.3 mi N of jct. of US 522 and VA 729","address_restricted":false,"city":"Flint Hill","county":"Rappahannock County","state":"VA","lat":38.764166329000034,"lon":-78.09992594799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-12-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small frame Baptist church with an adjoining small cemetery in the village of Flint Hill, northern Rappahannock County, Virginia, on the east side of U.S. Route 522. It was built in 1854 and enlarged with front and rear additions in the 1890s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a typical but rare surviving example in Rappahannock County of a mid-nineteenth-century rural church. It is notable for its late-19th-century Victorian features and for six opalescent stained-glass windows whose size and quality are rare for a small church. The building has changed little since the windows were installed around 1900.","narrative":"Flint Hill Baptist Church is a one-story frame and weatherboard church on a random rubble stone foundation in the village of Flint Hill, Rappahannock County, Virginia. Built in 1854 as a plain gable-roofed building with two front entrances, it became a more fashionable Victorian church in the 1890s, when an entrance tower with a belfry and rear Sunday school rooms were added and the interior was remodeled with faux-grained woodwork. The sanctuary holds six large opalescent stained-glass windows, probably installed around 1900, which are described as rare in size and quality for a small church and unmatched elsewhere in the county. The congregation formed in 1854 and is one of the county's earliest Baptist groups. A small churchyard cemetery includes the grave of Albert Gallatin Willis, a young Baptist hanged in 1864 during the Civil War. The church was recognized for its architecture, as a surviving mid-nineteenth-century rural church.","period_of_significance":"1854 to ca. 1900","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The church closed in 1968 and reopened on May 19, 1996; the few remaining members want to preserve the building. The cemetery is still listed as a current function.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.117169-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/6828/41682829/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/97001509.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001509/df1cf714a8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001509/df1cf714a8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flint_Hill,_Virginia_(6279258875).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flint_Hill,_Virginia_(6279258875).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682829","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Hill_Baptist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15217872"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rappahannock-county/flint-hill-baptist-church-97001509/"}