First Presbyterian Church

Contributors:

Addison Hutton, supervising architect; Samuel Sloan, architect; James Walker, builder; George Wilson, supervising mason

Dates:

1859-1861

Location:

Wilmington, New Hanover County

Street Address:

121 S. 3rd St., Wilmington, NC

Status:

No longer standing

Type:

Religious

Images Published In:

Susan Taylor Block, Cape Fear Lost (1999).
Emma Woodward MacMillan, A Goodly Heritage (1961).
Beverly Tetterton, Wilmington: Lost But Not Forgotten (2005).

Note:

Sloan’s First Presbyterian Church was built on a newly acquired site to replace a previous church (1821) that burned in 1859. The 1859-1861 building, in elaborate Gothic Revival style, burned in 1925 and was in turn replaced by the present First Presbyterian Church (1926-1928) designed by Hobart Upjohn.