Façade Oblique, St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church
St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church (New Bern, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- Façade Oblique, St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Church buildings
Facades
Religious buildings
Turrets
- Original Format:
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Black and white print (photograph)
- Item identifier:
- ncar_N_87_71_1_1937
- Photographer:
- Wrenn, T. P. more info on Wrenn, T. P.
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Architectural photographs
- Location:
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Craven County (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Beaux Arts to Modernism
Source information
- 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.
Building: Saint Cyprian's Episcopal Church (New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina)
- Architect:
- Simpson, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodley), 1870-1945 more info on Simpson, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodley), 1870-1945
- Built:
- Street:
- 604 Johnson Street
- Community:
- New Bern
- State:
- North Carolina
- Zip:
- 28560
- Historical note:
- St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, founded by 1866, was one of the earliest if not the earliest African-American Episcopal congregations in the state. The congregation met in a frame building, formerly a Baptist church, on this site until 1910, when construction began on the imposing brick edifice designed by Simpson.
- Architectural note:
- The cornerstone reads, "St. Cyprian's Church, Built 1910, H. S. Simpson, architect."
- Location:
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New Bern (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Church buildings
Historic buildings
- Latitude, Longitude:
- 35.111185, -77.042741