Centenary Methodist Church, also known as Centenary Memorial United Methodist Church, is a historic

Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's b ...

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

located at 2585 NC 130 E near Rowland,

Robeson County, North Carolina Robeson County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of North Carolina and is its largest county by land area. Its county seat is and largest city is Lumberton. The county was formed in 1787 from part of Bladen County and named in ...

. It was built in 1885, and enlarged and modified in the

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

style in 1903. It is a one-story, gable front frame building with a rectangular steeple and vestibule. A gable-front

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

with cornice returns, supported by two slender wood columns, was added to the church in 1982. Adjacent to the church is the contributing

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

with approximately 160 marked graves. It was added to the

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in 2007.

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Methodist churches in North Carolina Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Churches completed in 1885 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Buildings and structures in Robeson County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Robeson County, North Carolina 1885 establishments in North Carolina Neoclassical church buildings in the United States {{NorthCarolina-church-stub