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Historic church in Virginia, United States United States historic place
Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church in 2014
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Location806 Jamison Ave., SE, Roanoke, Virginia
Coordinates37°16′08″N 79°55′47″W / 37.26889°N 79.92972°W / 37.26889; -79.92972
Area.238 acres (0.096 ha)
Built1917 (1917)-1921
Built byClemmer, John L.
ArchitectCain, Herbert L., Miller, Homer M.
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.11000551
VLR No.128-6271
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 18, 2011
Designated VLRJune 16, 2011

Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church is a historic church building, located in the Belmont neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. It was built as a Methodist Episcopal church between 1917 and 1921, and is a three-story, brick, late Gothic Revival-style church. It features a tall bell tower, complex roof form, steeply-pitched gables and parapets, large pointed arch windows, crenellated corner towers, buttresses, cast-concrete quatrefoils, and other detailing. Capacity within sight and hearing of the pulpit is 1,000, as the original auditorium (seats 440) was enlarged with an adjoining parlor (75), an adult assembly room (260), and a gallery (225).

In a notice from 1917, H. L. Cain is named the architect of the church building, and the cost of the building was initially budgeted at $50,000.00.

The building was sold in 2003 to the Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge, who used it as their sanctuary; that church has since vacated the building. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2011. Since 2019, it has also been a contributing structure to the NRHP-listed Belmont Historic District.

References

  1. "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties. National Park Service. 2011-08-26.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. Michael J. Pulice (March 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
  4. Church and Sunday School Buildings. by Prince Emmanuel Burroughs. Sunday School Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1920. Page 169.
  5. Engineering News-Record. May 24, 1917, Volume 78, page 81.
  6. "MCC of the Blue Ridge, Roanoke, VA". Mccblueridge. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  7. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. "128-6271". DHR. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  8. Blanton, Alison; Gutshall, Katie; Kronau, Kate (August 2018). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Belmont Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

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