Front View, Calvary Moravian Church

Calvary Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

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Item information

Title:: Front View, Calvary Moravian Church
Topics:: Architecture
Subjects:: Arches
Church buildings
Cornices
Dormers
Facades
Religious buildings
Original Format:: Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:: ncar_N_82_6_4945
Photographer:: Taylor, Gwynne more info on Taylor, Gwynne
Created Date:: 1979-11
Genre:: Architectural photographs
Names:: Moravian Church more info on Moravian Church
Location:: Winston-Salem (N.C.)
Digital Project:: Beaux Arts to Modernism

Repository:: State Archives of North Carolina
Collection:: Division of Archives and History Photograph Collection (State Archives of North Carolina Collection 4.1) held by State Archives of North Carolina
Note field:: Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
Rights:: Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from the North Carolina State Archives.
Funding:: Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

Architect:: Northup & O'Brien (Winston-Salem, N.C.) more info on Northup & O'Brien (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

Provenance note:: The church was built for the Moravian congregation founded in 1888 from Salem's Home Church.
Architectural note:: The church, constructed in Flemish-bond brick, features coved plaster cornices and is presumably the first in the Moravian Revival style.
Historical note:: The church's clock was originally housed in the 1892 Winston town hall.
Location:: Winston-Salem (N.C.)
Subjects:: Church buildings
Historic buildings
Latitude, Longitude:: 36.096725, -80.249488