Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

	Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Steele Creek Presbyterian Church
Location	7407 Steele Creek Rd., near Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°11′3″N 80°57′23″W / 35.18417°N 80.95639°W
Area	17 acres (6.9 ha)
Built	1889
Architect	Norris, H.J.; Bigham Workshop
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
MPS	Rural Mecklenburg County MPS
NRHP reference No.	91000082
Added to NRHP	February 21, 1991

Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was founded in 1760 and the current sanctuary was built in 1889, and is a rectangular, Gothic Revival-style brick building. It is five bays wide and six bays deep, and has pointed-arched sash windows, shallow buttresses, and steeply pitched roof parapet. The cemetery contains approximately 1,700 headstones, with the oldest dating to 1763.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.^[1]

Notable members

John McDowell, namesake of the McDowell Nature Preserve, former member of the Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation Commission, local farmer and first responder to the Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crash.^[3]^[4]

Steele Creek Cemetery

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Richard Mattson and William Huffman (July 1990). "Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
^ Leland, Elizabeth (October 5, 1986). "J. McDowell, Former Parks Commissioner". Charlotte Observer. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
^ Fowler, Scott; Janes, Théoden (September 8, 2024). "Part 2 The Crash". Charlotte Observer. Retrieved February 2, 2025.

External links

Media related to Steele Creek Presbyterian Church at Wikimedia Commons

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] Richard Mattson and William Huffman (July 1990). "Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.

[mcdowell_obit-3] Leland, Elizabeth (October 5, 1986). "J. McDowell, Former Parks Commissioner". Charlotte Observer. Retrieved February 2, 2025.

[flight212-4] Fowler, Scott; Janes, Théoden (September 8, 2024). "Part 2 The Crash". Charlotte Observer. Retrieved February 2, 2025.

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