Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Front and eastern side
Location 2121 Lonesome Dove Dr., Christiansburg, Virginia
Coordinates 36°46′41.8″N 80°23′33.25″W / 36.778278°N 80.3925694°W / 36.778278; -80.3925694Coordinates: 36°46′41.8″N 80°23′33.25″W / 36.778278°N 80.3925694°W / 36.778278; -80.3925694
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1932
Architectural style Gothic Revival
MPS Reverend Robert Childress Presbyterian Churches MPS
NRHP Reference # 07000227[1]
VLR # 031-5005
Significant dates
Added to NRHP March 30, 2007
Designated VLR December 6, 2006[2]

Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery in Christiansburg, Floyd County, Virginia. It was built in 1932, and is one of six "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress and built between 1919 and the early 1950s. The building consists of a one-story, gable-fronted rectangular form with a roughly square, Gothic Revival bell tower centered on the building’s front elevation. The building was erected on a concrete block foundation, and has walls of light wood framing covered with a thick quartz and quartzite fieldstone exterior veneer.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Randle Brim; John Kern & Michael Pulice (December 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
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