Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery
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Location | SR 1411, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 34°12′50″N 77°49′35″W / 34.21389°N 77.82639°WCoordinates: 34°12′50″N 77°49′35″W / 34.21389°N 77.82639°W |
Area | 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) |
Built | 1835 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Vernacular Greco-Gothic |
NRHP Reference # | 86002879[1] |
Added to NRHP | October 16, 1986 |
Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery, also known as Lebanon Chapel, is a historic Episcopal chapel and cemetery located on SR 1411 in Wrightsville Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was built about 1835, and is a one-story, three bay by three bay, gable-roofed, rectangular building in a vernacular Greco-Gothic. It measures 26 feet wide and 37 feet deep, and is sheathed in weatherboard. It was restored in 1974. The cemetery contains 91 burials dating from 1815 to 1964. It is the oldest known surviving church in New Hanover County.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
References
- 1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ Edward F. Turberg (June 1986). "Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
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