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Church of the Redeemer (Asheville, North Carolina)

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Built
  
1886 (1886)-1888

Area
  
2,800 m²

Added to NRHP
  
19 September 1985

NRHP Reference #
  
85002419

Architectural style
  
Romanesque architecture

Church of the Redeemer (Asheville, North Carolina)

Location
  
1202 Riverside Drive, near Asheville, North Carolina

Church of the Redeemer is a historic Episcopal church located near Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1886-1888, and is a native stone cruciform chapel in the Romanesque style. It measures 50 feet long and has a steeply pitched slate gable roof. It features stained glass in round-arch windows—including a Tiffany window signed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Also on the property is a contributing cemetery. It was built by Dr. Francis Willis, a British physician, who built the private chapel on his 100-acre estate.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

Church of the Redeemer (Asheville, North Carolina) Wikipedia