2102 Childress Rd., Willis, Virginia. County/parish: Carroll.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 30, 2007. NRIS 07000229.
Part of Reverend Robert Childress Presbyterian Churches MPS (NRIS 64500975).
2 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.Also known as:
Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church located near Willis, Floyd County, Virginia. It was the first of the 5 "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress. It was built in 1929, and is a rock-faced frame building with a nave plan and front and rear transepts. The nave measures 33 feet wide and 80 feet long. It has a steeply-pitched gable roof covered with standing seam sheet metal. The contributing Cemetery has a continuous wall of mortared quartzitic fieldstones, matching the church exterior.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678609