{"nrhp_refnum":"99001720","name":"Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1214 Wilmer Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Henrico","county":"Henrico County","state":"VA","lat":37.60597320450006,"lon":-77.458291065753,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-02-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill is an Episcopal church at 1214 Wilmer Avenue near Richmond in Henrico County, Virginia, built between 1859 and 1860 in the Gothic Revival style. It stands on 12.576 wooded acres with a cemetery, a ca. 1910 education building and a ca. 1957 parish house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an outstanding example of late antebellum Gothic Revival design and perhaps the last such church finished in the United States before the Civil War began. It is also unusual as a Southern congregation's choice of a Northern architect, Clifton A. Hall of Providence, Rhode Island. Its design drew on 13th and 14th century English parish churches, and Hall reused it for Trinity Methodist Church in Providence.","narrative":"Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill, an Episcopal church on Wilmer Avenue near Richmond, was built in 1859-1860 and follows the Gothic Revival style. Brick walls, a steep slate roof banded in fish-scale patterns, lancet stained glass windows, decorative buttresses and an offset tower with a wooden spire give it the look of a medieval English parish church. The current 70-foot spire dates from 1915. The church was founded through the efforts of the Stewart brothers, who were prosperous tobacco and cotton merchants, and it spared local residents a long trip into Richmond to worship. Its design is attributed to Clifton A. Hall of the Providence, Rhode Island, firm C. G. Hall & Son, who reused it for Trinity Methodist Church there in 1864-1865. The nomination calls it perhaps the last Gothic Revival church completed in the country before the Civil War. The site also holds a cemetery with over 200 plots, a ca. 1910 education building and a 1957 parish house.","period_of_significance":"1860-Present","architect_builder":"Clifton A. Hall","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century - Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a church, with church office and church school functions, and an active cemetery.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.467728-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/6812/41681227/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/99001720.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001720/f022f79c5f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001720/f022f79c5f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmanuel_Church.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</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_Church.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681227","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Church_at_Brook_Hill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5373181"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/henrico-county/emmanuel-church-at-brook-hill-99001720/"}