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i ,. E i Page 24 G ' Germanton Methodist Church and Cemetery, Germanton , Stokes County . Built in 1856 , the church is important to the architectural history of Stokes as the oldest surviving religion- based building in the county and as a rare example of a mid-nineteenth-century brick church . The cemetery reflects the social history of Germanton through its representation of prominent families and people from the town ' s early period of development to the mid- twentieth century . (Preparer: Laura A . W. Phillips) , Jonathan Hill Jacocks House , New Hope vicinity , Perquimans County . Illustrative of antebellum development as the home of an important planter , the two -story , side-passage-plan residence is significant as an example of a Federal-period dwelling that evolved into a Greek Revival plantation seat . The property also includes a rare antebellum plank smokehouse . (Preparer: Thomas R . Butchko) Church of the Holy Trinity , Hertford, Perquimans County . The 184 & 1851 chapel stands as the earliest frame example in North Carolina of the early English parish church espoused by the Ecclesiological movement and reflects the adoption of the Gothic Revival style by the Protestant Episcopal Church during the antebellum period . (Preparer. Drucilla H. York) Oakforest , Wake Forest , Wake County . Combining elements of the Federal and Greek Revival styles , the two-story frame house is a rare survivor of the early nineteenth century . . (Preparers: Nancy F, Carter and HPO Staff James A . Blakeney House , Providence vicinity, Mecklenburg County . Located amid rampant urban sprawl south of Charlotte , the two-story Colonial Revival-influenced house is an exceedingly rare and intact early-twentieth-century frame farm dwelling . (Preparer: Richard Mattson Cove Creek High School , Sugar Grove , Watauga County . Important for its role in the educational history of this close-knit Appalachian community and as an example of a New Deal-era project , the impressive stone edifice is also architecturally significant as representative of the Collegiate Gothic style . (Preparers: HPO staff Friendly Hills , Tryon vicinity) Polk County . An impressive stucco and half-timbered Tudor Revival-style manor built in 1924 is the centerpiece of this Blue Ridge Mountain estate long associated with prominent fiction author Margaret Culkin Banning . (Preparer: Laura A . W. Phillips -- Claudia R . Brown, Jennifer Martin STATEWIDE ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY COVERS NEW GROUND Using a variety of survey methods , the HPO and local project sponsors continue to expand the coverage of the statewide architectural survey , with the goal of providing at least reconnaissance-level information for all one hundred counties . In addition , surveys accomplished several years ago were updated . The surveys were coordinated by region :