Jct. of Shelby and Cemetery Sts., Junction City, Kentucky. County/parish: Boyle.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 09, 1998. NRIS 98000331.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The First Christian Church in Junction City, Kentucky, is a historic Christian church at the junction of Shelby and Cemetery Streets. It was built in 1932 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
It was deemed notable " as a locally significant Period Revival interpretation of the early Christian Byzantine churches, with low massing and restrained ornament. It is of brick masonry with formed concrete basement foundation built on an "L" plan with intersecting gable roofs joined with a two-story vestibule/tower entry. Design details include large, stained glass, arch-headed windows centered in both gable ends above banks of stained glass sash windows, all trimmed with stone arches and lintels; corner buttresses with stone caps; stone coping at gable parapets; tower with wide eave overhang, shallow hip roof, louvered vents in the upper story and arch above the double door entry."
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123845844