2nd St. and 3rd Ave. NW, Hickory, North Carolina. County/parish: Catawba.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 15, 1985. NRIS 85000585.
Part of Hickory MRA (NRIS 64000456).
2 contributing buildings.
First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at 2nd Street and 3rd Avenue NW in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina. The church began in 1873 as a small mission church in the village of Hickory Station. Construction of the current building took place between 1905 and 1906, and it features a Romanesque Revival architectural style with a granite exterior. The front facade features square towers of unequal height. Attached to the church in 1928, is a three-story granite block Education Building with a flat roof and crenelated cornice. Also on the property is the former manse; a two-story, American Foursquare dwelling with a low hipped roof, overhanging eaves, and hipped dormer.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717449