First Baptist Church (Reidsville, North Carolina) Explained

First Baptist Church
Coordinates:36.3572°N -79.6644°W
Built:1918
Architecture:Late Gothic Revival
Added:December 11, 1986
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:86003386

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.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It has since been demolished.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Allison Harris Black. First Baptist Church. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . November 1985. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.