First Baptist Church (Reidsville, North Carolina)

First Baptist Church
Location 401 S. Scales St., Reidsville, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°21′26″N 79°39′52″W / 36.35722°N 79.66444°W / 36.35722; -79.66444Coordinates: 36°21′26″N 79°39′52″W / 36.35722°N 79.66444°W / 36.35722; -79.66444
Area less than one acre
Built 1918
Architectural style Late Gothic Revival
MPS Reidsville MRA
NRHP Reference # 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

  1. 1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 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.


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