{"nrhp_refnum":"97001594","name":"St. Philip's Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"317 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brevard","county":"Transylvania County","state":"NC","lat":35.23170123700004,"lon":-82.73060538299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Philip's Episcopal Church is a stone Normanesque Revival church on East Main Street at St. Philip's Lane in Brevard, Transylvania County, North Carolina, built in 1926. It is designed by Louis Humbert Asbury and has additions from 1963 and 1996.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a high-style, architect-designed example of Normanesque Revival architecture, unlike other churches in Brevard or Transylvania County. It also represents the role of mountain churches in the social development of the area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The 1926 building replaced an earlier church destroyed by fire.","narrative":"Built of gray cut stone under a slate roof, this Brevard church on East Main Street was completed in 1926 to designs by Louis Humbert Asbury of Charlotte. The building follows Norman architecture of eleventh and twelfth century Europe, with a nave plan, a central two-story bell tower over the entrance, round-arched stained glass windows, and a chancel at the rear. The congregation began in 1883 with a wood frame church on the same site. That building burned on Christmas Day 1925, and the present stone church replaced it, using stone from a quarry south of Brevard. Local craftsmen and stonemasons did much of the work. The church is regarded as a high-style example of its type in Transylvania County and an unusual design among the town's buildings. Additions were made in 1963 and 1996, and the church is nominated for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1926-1947","architect_builder":"Asbury, Louis Humbert, Architect; Kilpatrick, Marshall, Builder","architectural_style":"Normanesque Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Active church with additions from 1963 and 1996 and a rectory built in 1953.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.721208-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/7185/47718503/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/97001594.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001594/b8f08fa199-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001594/b8f08fa199-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Skye Marthaler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Philip%27s_Episcopal_Church.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Skye Marthaler</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:St._Philip%27s_Episcopal_Church.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"09000638","name":"East Main Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/east-main-street-historic-district-09000638/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718503","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Philip%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Brevard,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591516"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/transylvania-county/st-philips-episcopal-church-97001594/"}