124 W. Freemason St., Norfolk (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Norfolk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 21, 1997. NRIS 97000955.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Epworth United Methodist Church, originally Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic Methodist church located at Norfolk, Virginia. It was designed by two noted Virginia architects James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. (1867-1932) and John Kevan Peebles (1876-1934), and built between 1894 and 1896. It is a rusticated granite with yellow sandstone trim church building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The original building is divided into three sections: the cruciform sanctuary, the social hall and classrooms, and the pastor's study. The building features 22 beautiful stained glass windows, most notably the Ascension flanked by two Tiffany windows. It has a bell tower topped by a pyramidal red tile roof. The church was remodeled to its present appearance in 1921.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
After years of declining attendance the church will hold its last service on January 5, 2025. Future uses of the building have not been determined.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682121