First Christian Church, also known as First Church of Christ, is an historic

Disciples of Christ The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada. The denomination started with the Restoration Movement during the Second Great Awakening, first existing during the 19th ...

(DOC)

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

located at 126 S. Main Street in

Robersonville, North Carolina Robersonville, incorporated in 1872, is a town in Martin County, North Carolina, Martin County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,269 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Robersonville is located in North Carolina's In ...

Martin County, North Carolina Martin County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 22,031. Its county seat is Williamston, North Carolina, Williamston. History Ma ...

and was built in 1913. It is a one-story, brick-veneered,

Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended t ...

building with a cross-gable facade. The front facade features three arched stained-glass windows and a two-story corner

bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell to ...

. Also on the property is a contributing church

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 2005.

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Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregations Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Churches completed in 1913 Churches in Martin County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Martin County, North Carolina 1913 establishments in North Carolina Brick churches Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina {{NorthCarolina-church-stub