Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church
Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church in 2014
Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church is located in Virginia
Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church
Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church is located in the United States
Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church
Location806 Jamison Ave., SE, Roanoke, Virginia
Coordinates37°16′08″N 79°55′47″W / 37.26889°N 79.92972°W / 37.26889; -79.92972
Area.238 acres (0.096 ha)
Built1917 (1917)-1921
Built byClemmer, John L.
ArchitectCain, Herbert L., Miller, Homer M.
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.11000551[1]
VLR No.128-6271
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 18, 2011
Designated VLRJune 16, 2011[2]

Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church is a historic church building, located in the Belmont neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. It was built as a Methodist Episcopal church between 1917 and 1921, and is a three-story, brick, late Gothic Revival-style church. It features a tall bell tower, complex roof form, steeply-pitched gables and parapets, large pointed arch windows, crenellated corner towers, buttresses, cast-concrete quatrefoils, and other detailing.[3] Capacity within sight and hearing of the pulpit is 1,000, as the original auditorium (seats 440) was enlarged with an adjoining parlor (75), an adult assembly room (260), and a gallery (225).[4]

In a notice from 1917, H. L. Cain is named the architect of the church building, and the cost of the building was initially budgeted at $50,000.00.[5]

The building was sold in 2003 to the Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge, who used it as their sanctuary; that church has since vacated the building.[6] The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2011.[7] Since 2019, it has also been a contributing structure to the NRHP-listed Belmont Historic District.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties. National Park Service. 2011-08-26.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Michael J. Pulice (March 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
  4. ↑ Church and Sunday School Buildings. by Prince Emmanuel Burroughs. Sunday School Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1920. Page 169.
  5. ↑ Engineering News-Record. May 24, 1917, Volume 78, page 81.
  6. ↑ "MCC of the Blue Ridge, Roanoke, VA". Mccblueridge. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  7. ↑ Virginia Department of Historic Resources. "128-6271". DHR. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  8. ↑ Blanton, Alison; Gutshall, Katie; Kronau, Kate (August 2018). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Belmont Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.


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