Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

2102 Childress Rd., Willis, Virginia. County/parish: Carroll.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 30, 2007. NRIS 07000229.

2 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • 017-5016

From Wikipedia:

Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

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.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678609

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