Description of Historic Place

The Lutz Mountain Meeting House consists of a late 19th century New England style religious one-room meetinghouse located at the north end of Moncton on Mountain Road as it approaches Lutz Mountain.

Heritage Value

The Lutz Mountain Meeting House was designated because it is a good example of a late 19th century rural church structure in the New England meeting house architectural style with religious Gothic Revival elements. The single-room concept, rectangular massing and white clapboard siding are indicative of the religious and educational meeting houses that proliferated rural New Brunswick during this period. The Lutz Mountain Meeting House was also designated for its religious and community significance in the history of the Lutz Mountain area. The structure was the Second Moncton Baptist Church when Chipman Trites built it in 1883 and received worshippers until 1974.

Source: Moncton Museum, Moncton, New Brunswick - second floor files – “3143 Mountain”

Character-Defining Elements

The character-defining elements relating to location and context include:
- its location on original site adjacent to Lutz Mountain.

The character-defining elements relating to the exterior elements of the structure include:
- returned moulded eaves;
- white clapboard siding with square headed nails;
- Tuscan style corner posts;
- double doors with fanlight transoms;
- double hung Gothic arch windows with coloured glass shaped transoms;
- hood moulding with square stops and pendants;
- plain window sills.

The character-defining elements relating to the structural elements of the building include:
- rectangular massive;
- steeply pitched roof;
- New England one-room meeting house design;
- original brick chimney and flue;
- original pegged beam design.

The character-defining elements relating to the interior elements of the structure include:
- original pews;
- original hardwood floors;
- heritage artifacts from community and original church;
- lathe wainscoting;
- plaster and lath walls.