First Presbyterian Church - Wilmington, North Carolina
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BruceS
N 34° 13.998 W 077° 56.741
18S E 228674 N 3791950
Historic Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Waymark Code: WM5QVN
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 02/03/2009
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From North Carolina - A Guide to the Old North State in the
Wilmington section:
The FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NE. corner 3rd and Orange Sts. was
erected in 1928 after a design by Hobart Upjohn. The body of the church,
granite with limestone trim, is English Gothic with a clerestory. The
front with its spire suggests the French Gothic, particularly the Cathedral at
Chartres, while the brick Sunday school building is Tudor. The structure
replaced an earlier church on the same site whose onetime pastor, the Rev.
Joseph Ruggles Wilson, was the father of Woodrow Wilson. A mosaic tablet
in the vestibule memorializes the 28th President, who, as a boy, was a member.
- page 255
The First Presbyterian Church remains active in the same location with three
services each Sunday. There is also an historical marker commemorating
President Woodrow Wilson's time in Wilmington as a boy located near the church.