First Presbyterian Church (Hickory, North Carolina)
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First Presbyterian Church is a historic
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located at 2nd Street and 3rd Avenue NW in
Hickory Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus ''Carya'', which includes 19 species accepted by ''Plants of the World Online''. Seven species are native to southeast Asia in China, Indochina, and northeastern India (Assam), and twelve ...
,
Catawba County, North Carolina Catawba County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 160,610. Its county seat is Newton, and its largest community is Hickory. The county is part of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC ...
. The church began in 1873 as a small mission church in the village of Hickory Station. Construction of the current building took place between 1905 and 1906, and it features a Romanesque Revival architectural style with a granite exterior. The front facade features square towers of unequal height. Attached to the church in 1928, is a three-story granite block Education Building with a flat roof and crenelated cornice. Also on the property is the former
manse A manse () is a clergy house inhabited by, or formerly inhabited by, a minister, usually used in the context of Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and other Christian traditions. Ultimately derived from the Latin ''mansus'', "dwelling", from '' ...
; a two-story,
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dwelling with a low hipped roof, overhanging eaves, and hipped dormer. It was added to the
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in 1985.


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