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First Presbyterian Church (Franklin, North Carolina)

church building in North Carolina, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ5491767 ↗
Source-derived summary

First Presbyterian Church, formerly the Franklin Presbyterian Church, is a church in Franklin, North Carolina, United States. It was built in 1856 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. In 1993, it was rewired, fitted with HVAC and given new interior walls.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “First Presbyterian Church (Franklin, North Carolina)” as church building in North Carolina, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1856, 1987, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1856. The account is most persuasive where First, Presbyterian and Church can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as church building in North Carolina, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5491767. Authority coordinates are 35.182, -83.384. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1856, 1987 and 1993.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “First Presbyterian Church (Franklin, North Carolina)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow First Presbyterian Church (Franklin, North Carolina) primary sources, First Presbyterian Church (Franklin, North Carolina) archive and First research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “First Presbyterian Church (Franklin, North Carolina)”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “First Presbyterian Church (Franklin, North Carolina)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.