Built 1818 NRHP Reference # 71000573 Area 2 ha Added to NRHP 9 December 1971 | MPS Catawba County MPS Opened 1818 Architectural style Federal architecture | |
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St. Paul's Church and Cemetery also known as Old St. Paul’s Lutheran Church or St. Paul's Lutheran Church is a church in Newton, North Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 as a Historic Place in Catawba County, North Carolina.
St. Paul's Church, Newton is a two story log weatherboarded church built in 1818. It features a Federal style interior with carved sounding board and moldings and a separate, now repurposed, slave balcony. The building is one of the oldest existing churches in North Carolina west of the Catawba River. The graveyard headstones date to the late 18th century. The St. Paul's Reformed Church at Startown formed from this congregation in 1904.
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