National Historic Landmark-Old First Presbyterian Church

National Historical Landmark- Old First Presbyterian Church

The Old First Presbyterian Church was designed very late in William Strickland's career while he was engaged on the construction of the Tennessee State Capitol.

Having started his architectural career as an apprentice to ...

National Historic Landmark-Round Church

National Historical Landmarks- The Round Church

The Round Church, built in 1812-1813, is a rare, well-preserved example of a sixteen-sided meetinghouse. Richmond architect and builder William Rhodes displayed a level of skill and imagination that is normally reserved for high style ...

National Historic Landmark - Christ Church Alexandria

Completed in 1773, this is a little-altered, continuously used late Georgian brick church. The east wall is highlighted by a 2-tier Palladian window. The interior wooden galleries were added about 1785.

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, a ...

National Historic Landmark - Christ Church (Lancaster County)

John Carter began construction of the first church built on this site, a frame building completed in July 1670, some six months after his death. His son Robert "King" Carter financed the present brick church, but it was not completed ...

National Historic Landmark - Bruton Parish Church

Completed in 1715 (tower added in 1769), this is the earliest church in the British American colonies to reflect the infusion of English Renaissance style. It is cruciform in style, with a steep gable roof and circular windows in the ...

National Historic Landmark - Aquia Church

Completed in 1757, this is one of the finest and least-altered examples of Virginia's rural Georgian churches. Constructed of brick with quoins and door frames of locally quarried Aquia Creek sandstone, the Greek Cross plan and architectural embellishments are derived ...

National Historic Landmark - Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church

From Philadelphia, Anna M. Jarvis sent 500 carnations to this church, which she had attended as a youth, to be distributed at morning services on Sunday, May 10, 1908 to honor mothers. Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker, who had joined her ...

National Historic Landmark- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is associated with the Birmingham Alabama civil rights movement in 1963 in which two specific events led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Between May 2-8, 1963, participants of the nonviolent ...

National Historic Landmark- Government St. Presbyterian Church

Completed in 1836, Government Street Presbyterian Church is one of the oldest and least-altered Greek Revival style houses of worship remaining in the United States.

The building also illustrates one of the earliest estant religious usages in America of the ...

National Historic Landmark- Episcopal Church of the Nativity

Completed in 1859, the Church of the Nativity is one of the most pristine examples of Ecclesiological Gothic architecture in the South.

It is also one of the least-altered structures by the hand of Frank Wills. The English-born Wills, along ...