227 East Rosemary Street

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HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
2007-2008
Constructed in 2007-2008 to serve the growing congregation of the historic Holy Trinity Lutheran Church across the street at 300 East Rosemary, this Gothic Revival-style church has a front-gabled sanctuary with an offset, front-gabled entrance wing. The building has a concrete foundation, brick veneer, and aluminum-clad wood windows. The entrance wing, at the northwest corner of East Rosemary Street and Pickard Lane, is three bays wide and four bays deep with a parapeted gable, paired four-panel doors, with a multi-light, Gothic-arch transom, that are flanked by narrow eighteen-light windows, and arched multi-light windows on the right (east) elevation. On the left (west) elevation, a one-story, flat-roofed concrete-block wing has fixed eight-light windows. The sanctuary has a higher, front-gabled roof with side-gabled bays, resulting in a cross-gabled form with a square tower at the intersection of the gables. This section has parapeted gables and paired thirty-light windows with fifteen-light transoms. The bell tower has a concrete base, fixed windows on each elevation, and a pyramidal roof with gabled louvered vents on each elevation. Extending from the left rear (northwest) of the sanctuary, a one-story, gabled hyphen connects to a side-gabled hall. There is a flat-roofed, concrete-block wing to the right of the hyphen and an inset entrance on its right elevation. The church complex includes a sanctuary and narthex, crib and toddler nursery, music room, sacristy, clergy visiting room, and a youth room. The church replaced the mid-twentieth century Kappa Alpha Theta House that stood on the site.

In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building..

SOURCE: Heather Wagner Slane, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, Orange County, OR1750 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 2015), courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.