NRHP Reference # 79001653 Added to NRHP 29 May 1979 | Area 1 ha | |
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Built 1879-1880, 1887, 1911, 1926, 1963 Similar Mead Memorial Chapel, Christ Episcopal Church, St Luke's Episcopal Church, Church of St Joseph of Arimat, First Presbyterian Church | ||
St. Athanasius Episcopal Church and Parish House and the Church of the Holy Comforter is a historic Episcopal church complex located at 300 E. Webb Avenue and 320 E. Davis Street in Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. St. Athanasius Church is a small Carpenter Gothic chapel designed by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel and built in 1879-1880. Adjacent to St. Athanasius is the Parish House (1887). In 1911, when the Neo-Gothic Revival style Church of the Holy Comforter was designed by Hobart Upjohn and built west of St. Athanasius. The Neo-Gothic Revival style Parish House was added in 1926. The Parish House addition and Great Hall were added in 1963. Between St Athanasius Church and Church of the Holy Comforter is a cemetery with graves dating to 1882.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.