Churches

Myers Park Presbyterian Church

Myers Park Presbyterian Church is located on Queens Road in the Myers Park neighborhood. Physical Description: 3x5 black and white Publisher: Dixie News Company

Tryon Street

View of Tryon Street looking South from Seventh Street. On the left is the First Baptist Church, the Carengie Library and the City Hall. On the right is the Tryon Street Methodist Church and the Realty Building can be seen in the distance. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Observer Printing House

First Methodist Episcopal Church

The First Methodist Church formed in 1927 with the merger of Tryon Street Methodist and Trinity Methodist. This particular building was completed in 1927 at a cost between $8000,000 and $900,000. It houses a four-manual organ, tower chimes, a 1560 seat auditorium and a educational building. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: E. C. Kropp Company

St. Peter's Episcopal Church and Parish House

St. Peters Episcopal Church and Parish House. Located in the 400 block of North Tryon St. It is the oldest Episcopal Church in they city. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: S H Kress

First Baptist Church

Once the home of First Baptist Church, this site is located in the 300 block of North Tryon Street. The church can trace its history to 1832. This facility was built in 1908 and served the congregation until the 1970s when they moved to a new church. The older facility was transformed into a cultural center for arts education and is known as Spirit Square. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: S H Kress

First Presbyterian Church

This image of First Presbyterian Church was taken prior to the addition of the Sunday School Building in 1894.

Physical Description: 4x4 print with 4 x 5 negative

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Sugaw (Sugar) Creek Cemetery and Church

Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church is located on North Tryon Street. Founded in 1755, the building in this photograph was constructed in 1895, and it still stands. The cemetery, seen above, features dates to the mid-eighteenth century.

Physical Description: Top photograph 3 x 3 1/2 Bottom photograph 4x 41/2 Both on 6 x 11 piece of mounting board.

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First Presbyterian Church and Manse

First Presbyterian Church was organized in 1832. This building opened in 1895.

Physical Description: 3 inch circular mounted print

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Machpelah Presbyterian Church

Machpelah Presbyterian Church in Lincoln County was built in 1848 on land donated by Violet G. and Moses Winslow Alexander.
The illustration is from General Joseph Graham and his Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History (1904).

Physical Description: From an original sketch made in 1902

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