First Baptist Church (Reidsville, North Carolina)
Appearance
First Baptist Church | |
Location | 401 S. Scales St., Reidsville, North Carolina |
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Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1918 |
Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
MPS | Reidsville MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 86003386[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 11, 1986 |
First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at at 401 S. Scales Street in Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1918, and is a Late Gothic Revival style brick church. It has a three bay wide front facade with crenellated towers of unequal height and a three-part tracery stained glass window. It was home to an African-American Baptist congregation until the mid-1970s.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Allison Harris Black (November 1985). "First Baptist Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
Categories:
- African-American history of North Carolina
- Baptist churches in North Carolina
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Gothic Revival churches in North Carolina
- Churches completed in 1918
- Churches in Rockingham County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, North Carolina
- Piedmont Triad region, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs
- North Carolina church stubs