1890–1892, T. Buckler Ghequier; 1915 addition; 1942 vestibule. 106 E. Clinton Ave.
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(Photograph by Tim Buchman) -
(Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
The Reverend Robert S. Carter, of this congregation organized in 1890, commissioned Ghequier of Baltimore to design the church. The small wooden building has a cross-shaped plan covered by a steeply pitched hipped roof with a small square belfry, and an even more steeply pitched gable-roofed vestibule with wide eaves. Beneath the high wooden-arched ceiling, the interior walls are finished in diagonal tongue-and-groove boards. A choir room was added to the southwest corner in 1915 and a decade later stained glass windows were installed. The church is different from the simple rectangular churches common to the area during the late nineteenth century.