First Christian Church (Junction City, Kentucky)

Historic church in Kentucky, United States

United States historic place


First Christian Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Church front in 2012
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Location	Jct. of Shelby and Cemetery Sts., Junction City, Kentucky
Coordinates	37°35′5″N 84°47′29″W / 37.58472°N 84.79139°W / 37.58472; -84.79139
Area	less than one acre
Built	1932
MPS	Boyle MPS
NRHP reference No.	98000331
Added to NRHP	April 9, 1998

The First Christian Church in Junction City, Kentucky is a historic Christian church at the junction of Shelby and Cemetery Streets. It was built in 1932 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

It was deemed notable " as a locally significant Period Revival interpretation of the early Christian Byzantine churches, with low massing and restrained ornament. It is of brick masonry with formed concrete basement foundation built on an "L" plan with intersecting gable roofs joined with a two-story vestibule/tower entry. Design details include large, stained glass, arch-headed windows centered in both gable ends above banks of stained glass sash windows, all trimmed with stone arches and lintels; corner buttresses with stone caps; stone coping at gable parapets; tower with wide eave overhang, shallow hip roof, louvered vents in the upper story and arch above the double door entry."

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
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Christine Amos (November 26, 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: First Christian Church / BO-153". National Park Service. Retrieved December 31, 2017. With two photos.

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