First Baptist Church (Stamford, Texas) Explained

First Baptist Church
Coordinates:32.9472°N -99.8022°W
Locmap Relief:yes
Added:September 24, 1986
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:86002359
Designated Other1:RTHL
Designated Other1 Date:1989
Designated Other1 Number:15310
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at E. Oliver and N. Swenson in Stamford, Texas. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Built in 1908, the church is a large, domed structure built on a Greek Cross form and covered with buff-colored brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 1986, and designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1989. A two-story educational building was added in 1932 and another educational wing in 1960.

The First Baptist Church was organized in Stamford in early 1900. Frank Shelby Groner became pastor in 1905. He increased the membership from 147 to about 750 and that made a new and larger church necessary. After using temporary facilities for seven years, the congregation had grown and prospered enough to initiate a new structure. Ten leading members of the church each pledged $1,000 for construction, and the new church stood as one of the city's most elaborate and expensive structures.

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