202 East Sprague Street, Trinity Moravian Church, 1911, 1927, 2001

Trinity Moravian Church was established in 1886 as a missionary church by a group of Salem women at the Centerville Sunday School (Centerville School). Declining attendance at the Centerville location prompted the construction of the new church on the streetcar line in the more quickly growing Sunnyside area. A frame chapel was first erected, serving until local architect Willard C. Northup designed this two-story brick Gothic Revival structure that was built by Fogle Brothers in 1912. The adjacent parsonage was constructed in 1922.

The original section has a front gable with square tower, Gothic Revival details, and granite and cast stone accents. Gables feature stepped corbeling with capped, salient buttresses ornamenting the tower. The secondary entry (on the right side) has a Craftsman style, gabled roof with large knee braces. The 1927 rear Sunday School wing (when standing on Sprague Street, to the left), designed by local architects Northup and O’Brien, has a side-gabled roof and end wall parapets and is three-and-a-half stories. A three-story brick stair tower was added to this wing in 2001.

In 1961, local architectural firm Lashmit, James, Brown, and Pollock designed the Salem Revival style Douglas Rights Chapel that was constructed by Wilson Covington. It features donated stained glass windows created by the High Point Stained Glass Company. (This section faces out towards Sprague Street, between the original structure and the Sunday School wing. Its street end features a blind arch and small, round upper window.) A 1.2 million dollar renovation overseen by Thomas H. Hughes Architecture was completed in 2002.

Gothic Revival (1830-1880, later in rural areas) – A style of architecture in America aimed at reviving the spirit and forms of Gothic architecture, which was the prevalent style during the High Middle Ages in Western Europe. It emerged from the Romanesque and Byzantine forms in France. Features a steeply pitched roof with steep cross-gables; is often decorated with vergeboard (Bargeboard); wall surface extends into the gable; windows often extend into the gables and with a pointed-arch (gothic) shape; large-scale projecting bay windows possible (or oriel style windows); lancet windows; drip-molds common above windows.

Lancet Window - A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. The lancet window first appeared in the early French Gothic period (c. 1140–1200), then later in the English period of Gothic architecture (1200–1275). So common was the lancet window feature that this era is sometimes known as the "Lancet Period.”

Segmental Arch - a type of arch with a circular arc of less than 180 degrees. (Above the windows in the Salem Revival Sunday School Wing.)

Salem Revival style – a unique architectural style found throughout Forsyth County that is influenced by the 1800 Home Moravian Church design in Old Salem.