Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church
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Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church (also known as St. James Place Museum) is a historic Primitive Baptist
church building at 107 N. Outterbridge Street in Robersonville, North Carolina
that currently houses a museum of southern folk art
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The Gothic Revival building was originally constructed in 1910 as a Primitive Baptist church building for the congregation, founded in 1883. The building was later restored in the 1990s by Dr. Everette James and is now home to the St. James Place Museum. The museum now houses original furnishings, southern folk art, and antique duck decoys. More than 100 North Carolina quilts, including 42 African-American examples, and hundreds of pieces of North Carolina pottery are exhibited. The museum is open year round daily by appointment. Visitors may schedule free tours through the Robersonville Town Library. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 2005.
Primitive Baptist
Primitive Baptists, also known as Hard Shell Baptists or Anti-Mission Baptists, are conservative, Calvinist Baptists adhering to beliefs that formed out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 1800’s over the appropriateness of mission boards, bible tract societies, and temperance...
church building at 107 N. Outterbridge Street in Robersonville, North Carolina
Robersonville, North Carolina
Robersonville, incorporated in 1872, is a town located in Martin County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,731 at the 2000 census. Robersonville is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region...
that currently houses a museum of southern folk art
Folk art
Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic....
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The Gothic Revival building was originally constructed in 1910 as a Primitive Baptist church building for the congregation, founded in 1883. The building was later restored in the 1990s by Dr. Everette James and is now home to the St. James Place Museum. The museum now houses original furnishings, southern folk art, and antique duck decoys. More than 100 North Carolina quilts, including 42 African-American examples, and hundreds of pieces of North Carolina pottery are exhibited. The museum is open year round daily by appointment. Visitors may schedule free tours through the Robersonville Town Library. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2005.