Forestville Baptist Church

Contributors:

Jacob W. Holt, attributed builder

Dates:

1859

Location:

Forestville, Wake County

Street Address:

US 1-A, Forestville, NC

Status:

Standing

Type:

Religious

Images Published In:

Kelly A. Lally, The Historic Architecture of Wake County, North Carolina (1994).

Note:

The gable-fronted frame church combines a Gothic-Italianate-Greek Revival exterior with a more simply finished Greek Revival interior. Circumstantial evidence and stylistic elements suggest Holt (a Baptist) as the builder.