Location Information
(for the First Presbyterian Church)
Name:First Presbyterian Church
Address:1501 Cherry Street
City/County:Vicksburg, Warren County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1904-1908
Architectural Styles(s):Romanesque
Registration Information
NR District Name:Uptown Vicksburg (1993)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:9
NR District Name:Uptown Vicksburg Amendment and Boundary Increase No. 2 (2020)
    NR Status:Previously Listed
    Element No.:10
Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Historic Vicksburg District
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Context/Comments
Designed by regionally prominent architect Reuben Harrison Hunt of Chattanooga, and built in 1906-08, Vicksburg's First Presbyterian Church is the only Richardsonian Romanesque church of stone construction in Mississippi.

It was listed as a contributing element (element #9) in the Uptown Vicksburg Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 19 August 1993, and it was more recently included as element #10 in the Uptown Vicksburg Amendment and Boundary Increase No. 2, which was added to the National Register on 4 February 2020.

It is included the "Historic Vicksburg Walking Tour Guide" (1987) (#17, p. 17), "Vicksburg (Images of America) " (1999) (p.61), "Historic Churches of Mississippi" (2007) (p.154), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.79, YB20).
Brief Description
A two-story, cut-stone Richardsonian Romanesque auditorium-plan Church, facing west, with an asphalt gable roof over the main body of the building. There is a three-story, square tower on the northwest corner with stained-glass windows of differing sizes and configurations on each story. The comers of this tower on the third floor contain circular turrets of differing heights with conical roofs and finials. The tower is capped with a steep four-sided pyramidal roof with louvered dormers. A smaller two-story square tower on the southwest comer is capped with a pyramidal roof pierced by a parapeted dormer. There is a flat-arched, three-part, stained-glass window on the second floor of this tower. The center section of the church is the gable, end and is recessed between these two towers. Its most prominent feature is a large rose window. In front of this section is a one-story arcaded porch with a flat roof. The round-headed arches are supported by squat round Byzantine columns and pilasters with cushion capitals. There are three large stained-glass fixed windows on the front facade.