Mars Hill Baptist Church

Historic church in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Mars Hill Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


36°5′58″N 80°13′46″W / 36.09944°N 80.22944°W / 36.09944; -80.22944
Area	less than one acre
Built	1915 (1915)
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival, Queen Anne
MPS	African-American Neighborhoods in Northeastern Winston-Salem MPS
NRHP reference No.	99000061^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 27, 1999

Mars Hill Baptist Church, also known as Fries Memorial Moravian Church, is a historic African-American Baptist church located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built in 1915, and is a T-shaped brick building with corner tower in the Gothic Revival style. Also on the property is the parsonage; a one-story, pebble-dash finished Queen Anne style dwelling. It has a high hipped roof, a central hipped dormer, and a hipped-roof full-front porch supported by fluted columns. It was originally built for a white Moravian congregation, until the Mars Hill Baptist Church congregation purchased the building in 1944 for $4,000.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Landon Edmunds Oppermann (March 1998). "Mars Hill Baptist Church" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.