Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church
National Register of Historic Places

Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church

Roanoke (Independent City), Roanoke County, Virginia
Listed
August 17, 2011
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
11000551

About this property

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. 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). 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. 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. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2011. Since 2019, it has also been a contributing structure to the NRHP-listed Belmont Historic District.

Location

806 Jamison Ave.
Roanoke (Independent City), Roanoke County, Virginia
37.26912, -79.93016

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Sources

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When was Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church listed on the National Register?

Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 17, 2011.

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Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Belmont Methodist-Episcopal Church is recorded as the industrial era, specifically around 1917.

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