Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill
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The Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill, in Henrico County, Virginia
Henrico County, Virginia
Henrico is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. As of 2010, Henrico was home to 306,935 people. It is located in the Richmond-Petersburg region and is a portion of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, was built between 1859 and 1860. It was listed on 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 2000. The listing included two contributing buildings (the church and a church school from 1910) and one contributing site, a cemetery.

According to its 1999 NRHP nomination, the church "is a superb example of late antebellum Gothic Revival ecclesiastical architecture" and very likely "the last such building constructed before the Civil War began". It was designed by Rhode Island architect Clifton A. Hall
Clifton A. Hall
Clifton A. Hall was an American architect.He designed the Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill in Henrico County, Virginia, modelling it on English parish churches....

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