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Mars Hill Baptist Church

Coordinates: 36°5′58″N 80°13′46″W / 36.09944°N 80.22944°W / 36.09944; -80.22944
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Mars Hill Baptist Church
Mars Hill Baptist Church is located in North Carolina
Mars Hill Baptist Church
Mars Hill Baptist Church is located in the United States
Mars Hill Baptist Church
Location1331 E. Fourth St.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Coordinates36°5′58″N 80°13′46″W / 36.09944°N 80.22944°W / 36.09944; -80.22944
Arealess than one acre
Built1915 (1915)
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival, Queen Anne
MPSAfrican-American Neighborhoods in Northeastern Winston-Salem MPS
NRHP reference No.99000061[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 27, 1999

Mars Hill Baptist Church, also known as Fries Memorial Moravian Church, is a historic African-American Baptist church. It is located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, and was built in 1915. It 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

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ 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.