{"nrhp_refnum":"99000060","name":"Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church","other_names":["East Fourth Street Baptist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1435 E. Fourth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.09954626900003,"lon":-80.22714211299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-01-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Classical Revival brick church at the northwest corner of East Fourth Street and Dunleith Avenue in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, erected in 1924 for the East Fourth Street Baptist Church.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its association with the growth of African-American neighborhoods in northeastern Winston-Salem, as a white church that was acquired by an African-American congregation in 1942. It is also argued to be an intact, little-changed example of Classical Revival church architecture in Forsyth County.","narrative":"Built in 1924 on East Fourth Street in Winston-Salem, this brick church was erected for the East Fourth Street Baptist Church, a white congregation, when the neighborhood was predominantly white. Its front facade has a pedimented porch between two domed brick towers, with an arcade of elliptical and half-round arches and stained glass windows lighting the sanctuary. The Akron-plan interior has one-story side wings beneath the windows and a balcony at the rear. In 1942 the building was bought by a congregation from the Goler Memorial church on Patterson Avenue, whose sanctuary had burned in 1941. The purchase reflected the rapid shift of East Winston from a white to an African-American neighborhood. The congregation later took the name Goler Metropolitan in 1953. The building is valued for its intact exterior and as an example of the style applied to a church.","period_of_significance":"1924-1948","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Church in use as Goler Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church; the document describes the building as retaining its historic form and materials.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.66233-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/7178/47717835/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000060.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000060/cdbc681307-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000060/cdbc681307-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jim Roberts","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goler_Metropolitan_AME_Zion_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Roberts</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goler_Metropolitan_AME_Zion_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717835","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goler_Metropolitan_AME_Zion_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5580472"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/goler-metropolitan-ame-zion-church-99000060/"}