Union Baptist Church is a historic church at 109 Court Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. It was built in 1899 to a design by Nathaniel Cannon Smith in Shingle Style architecture. The congregation was founded in 1895 by a merger of two African American congregations that had split some four decades earlier. This historical church group was a leading New Bedford institution associated with the assistance of fugitive slaves in the pre-Civil War period.[2]
Union Baptist Church | |
 Union Baptist Church | |
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| Location | 109 Court St., New Bedford, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 41°38′03″N 70°56′05″W / 41.63423°N 70.93473°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1899 |
| Architect | Smith, Nathaniel Cannon |
| Architectural style | Shingle Style |
| NRHP reference No. | 08000532[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 16, 2008 |
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]
See also
edit- Times and Olympia Buildings, also designed by Smith in New Bedford and NRHP-listed.
- National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Union Baptist Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
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