Architectural style Greek Revival VLR # 017-5016 Area 1 ha Year built 1929 | NRHP Reference # 07000229 Designated VLR December 6, 2006 Phone +1 540-789-5960 Added to NRHP 30 March 2007 | |
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Location 2102 Childress Rd., near Willis, Virginia MPS Reverend Robert Childress Presbyterian Churches MPS Address 2102 Buffalo Rd, Willis, VA 24380, USA Similar Bluemont Presbyter Church, Slate Mountain Presbyter, Mayberry Presbyter Church, Topeco Church of the Brethr, Rocky Knob Recreatio | ||
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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