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Providence Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

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Architectural style
  
Greek Revival

Area
  
9.5 ha

Added to NRHP
  
1 June 1982

NRHP Reference #
  
82003487

Year built
  
1858

Providence Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Location
  
10140 Providence w Lane., Matthews, North Carolina

Providence Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located at 10140 Providence Road in Matthews, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1858, and is a rectangular, gable-front Greek Revival style frame building. It is three bays wide and four bays deep on a low stone foundation and features extraordinarily tall window openings on all four sides. Adjacent to the church is the contributing church cemetery, with the oldest grave marker dated 1764. Providence Presbyterian Church, the oldest intact and only antebellum frame church in Mecklenburg County.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Providence Presbyterian Church and Cemetery Wikipedia