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thodist Church

STREU NUMBER 1904 0 3 mile W of t SR 1905

CITY, TOWN

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NAME Snow Creek Methodist Church

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North Carolina 77

STATE

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The SnOH ,

about The and t and woodlands to the and Snov]

River th

church face southward toward the woods beh church

The present church build was erected in 1884-1885 and is a Greek Revival tyle The frame 1 lJ, eaves wide eave turns frieze board under B

of the church are large ash with wood-louvered shutters small ree apse projects from the re building Or the church had no from the front gable-end facade instead had two double-leaf dOOTS with four-l transoms above. Its or inal form imilar in de to Be ian Church and was gene of the same type Centre Pre rian Church end of vlhich i to say it exhibited the same bas late Greek Revival form ieal of many Pi(~dmont churche built dur the mid to late nineteenth cen (See seet of nomination for Bethany Pre r Church Centre Pre ian Church.) Dur the mid-twentieth cen-tury a ve tibule, which ated the de of the main body of the church with Ie roof boxed eave with turns, frieze board and t 1 narrow louvered was added to the front of the church with a small ent with three clu tered at each corner. The on low ldstone foundation

The interior a SnOvl Creek Hethodist Church walls and ceil give a ather auste the broad gmental arch supported by lis type ornament, which lead to a shallow are t 11 t now connec the

Connec frame

of the th

unaltered The flu athed Some decorative relief is by

and a carved fleur-de-ar inal double-leaf front entrance

1dded t

J one-story des of

Behind the church is the Snow Creek Ground 1 tomb-stones date from post 1800 Some are delightful examples of the s of loca artis the stone of Fe te (1810) which shows a las ieal

on a tomb with urn, rather crude done and s by J Hall and the stone of Mary s husband, . William Feimster (1842) which pictures an old man seated in an armchair also rather crude executed but this time (See section of nomination on William Feimster House )

Surround the cemetery a dry-laid field tone wall with flat top about three t

Apparently the wall was rebuilt, for a te ma~ker near the south Enlarged and Wall Rebuilt 19 by Field & Stre Garden CluV ' and a next to the says rue ted by Al and Erne t 'B f Jurney a contribution to Snow Creek Ceme the post into which this gate the carved vlOrds "VELYN of t

The we t wall of the is composed of vert po t of wh similar to the main

nomination) and both of the

has which terminate in

tOvla rd thE! ceme (see

are mOl.:',:; deeorat than

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flame or we t

Church i

etion of

South Iredell

NATIONAL

PERIOD Of

_PREHISTORIC _AHCHEULUGY-PREHISTOHIC _COMMUNI r{ ,t\,RCHITECTURE

_J;;'C;RICU LTU RE

ENGINHRING

_EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY

GNIFICANCE

_I~~OUSI RY

_INVENTION

Snow Creek thodi t Church a weI The congre 1) llovlever

one of the t

among

CRITERIA ASSESSMENT

_POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

BUI LDERI ARCH !TEeT

tone and

built in

A. Snow Creek Methodist Church is associated with the t 0 the Great in reI ion whi

the practical manifesta­shortly after the turn

C

of the nineteenth

The pre t Snow Creek thodist Church characteristics of late Greek Revival s

built in 1884-1885 embodies the

Piedmont country churches during the middle 1 ious architecture

second hal of the Snow Creek Ground saes both the ive de

and issns in Iredell.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

for the Hethodist and

buried the Iud

I was no until a Method cong

young itinerant in the Snow Creek te these societie of about fi

Under the ordained Presbyte i communi

church for King' Methodist Epis CreE,k

quarter

who had moved Bruce had

land House soon became

an Creek

full­Ground

Snow

Wh i Ie Snm.; Cree k t-las no t the f t Be thod t church in Iredell during t~e ivil War period

as well as white. By the end of this pe trongest in Iredell with the ~ ge t

meeting ite in north Iredell

The pre ent frame church informed its readers that the Snow Creek a frame build 38 50 t not to occupy the graveyard. II ~7ork had commenced the 1885 ti t The Landmark noted "the new h fi t

The burying ground received the these effort the club 'limn "educational and tivitie use th a small congre

Evans r, American Revolution

"Great Room

in Iredell." itten Iredell County Pub ic Library,

ACREAGE OF NOMINATED

UTM

All of Tract 13

The prope r be cons the cemetery and the surround environment of the Snow Creek

of the

to number thodi denomination had grown to be the

SnOvl Creek 1 f became main

23, it resolved "to build

t ite of the is church but nearer but it not unt I t 28

at Snow Creek--a itable build it week before last.

Garden Clubl~n 1954 and for conte t In 7 an

till in actio

Statesville Iredell County

in Homer Keever files Ie, N.C

James Iredell

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as outlined in red on map

ty vJh the

s protection for the h tor

FHR·-8- 300A (11/78)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE

11 County

Snow Creek Hethodist Church and Ground

CONTI NUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 9 PAGE

(Cont'd)

Iredell County Deed Books Office of the ter of Deeds Iredell County Courthouse Statesville. Microfilm copies at the State Archives Division of Archives and His Rale

Keever, Homer H. Revolution B

State 76

Iredell County An~rican

"William Sharpe File It Research Branch Archaeology and Histor Division of Archives and History Rale

Preservation Section,

The Landmark

1 Homer

and Landmark.

tatesville.

FOOTNOTES

Revolution Bieen lIe Iredell County American

hereinafte cited as Keever, Iredell

2 "Great Iredell Room, (compiler) B

in Iredell " Iredell County Public

ten manuscript in Homer Keever files James Statesville N.C; Virg Fraser Evans

(Statesville Iredell County American Revolution

(1742-1818) was one of He rved in the

at Snow Creek. "William

stern North Carolina's most outstanding leg lature and in Cont ss

File " Research Branch Archaeology and Histor Preservation 1011 Division of Archives and His Raleigh N.C

4 Keever

id 189-190 dated July 8 1805

6K eever,

7 Ibid. 188 190

189.

deed c tat ment proposed meet house Iredell County Deed Book F p 86.

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J. Eural Federal 1800-1825 : OCCUPANCY 7' Gk Rev 1822-1865

j, Ovmer Ital Rev 1865-1885 Tenant Goth Rev 1885-1915 Vacant FHA INoHo Log 1915-1929 Deserted Post 1929 It,Tork in frogress Triple-A E Height

~j r,OhDITION Flain 19th 1 story Excellent 2nd EmR 1-5 story

I~ Good (rueen A 2 story Fair Neo CIR 2~ story Leteriorated . Geo/Col Ii. 3 or more Huin Hisc Vic F vJidth UnexT osed 1-2 bay

\ii!k~1 YUTURE B Alt: Ext 3 bay X Stable None-minor 4-5 bay

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