First Baptist Church (Reidsville, North Carolina)
Appearance
First Baptist Church | |
![]() Site overview | |
Location | 401 S. Scales St., Reidsville, North Carolina |
---|---|
Coordinates | 36°21′26″N 79°39′52″W / 36.35722°N 79.66444°W |
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 was a historic Southern Baptist church located at 401 S. Scales Street in Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1918, and was 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] It has since been demolished.
References
[edit]- ^ 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 churches in North Carolina
- Baptist churches in North Carolina
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Gothic Revival church buildings in North Carolina
- Churches completed in 1918
- Churches in Rockingham County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, North Carolina
- Southern Baptist Convention churches
- Reidsville, North Carolina
- Piedmont Triad region, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs
- North Carolina church stubs