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Antioch Baptist ChurchTrent Gilliss, Online EditorThirty minutes north of Greensboro is a magnificent country church with a modernist flare that would appeal to most minimalists. In 2002, a century-old church standing on the site was carefully dismantled right down to the pulled nails so the materials could be reused in its current incarnation. The concrete blocks were salvaged from the women’s dorms at Auburn and serve as a retaining wall leading parishioners into the church.(photo: Mitch Hanley)
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Antioch Baptist Church
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor

Thirty minutes north of Greensboro is a magnificent country church with a modernist flare that would appeal to most minimalists. In 2002, a century-old church standing on the site was carefully dismantled right down to the pulled nails so the materials could be reused in its current incarnation. The concrete blocks were salvaged from the women’s dorms at Auburn and serve as a retaining wall leading parishioners into the church.

(photo: Mitch Hanley)

    • #consumed
    • #road trip
    • #environmentalism
    • #alabama
    • #rural studio
    • #sustainability
    • #architecture
    • #church
    • #christian
    • #baptist
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