Fourth Baptist Church | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | May 15, 1979[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 127-0318 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | 2800 P St., Richmond, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 37.5358°N -77.41°W |
Architecture: | Gothic Revival |
Added: | September 7, 1979 |
Refnum: | 79003291 |
Fourth Baptist Church is a Baptist church located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1884, and is a three-story, Greek Revival style stuccoed brick structure. It features a distyle portico in antis elevated on a high podium. It consists of two unfluted Doric order columns and paired pilasters supporting a Doric entablature. Attached to the church is a Sunday School building erected in 1964.[2]
The addition was designed by Ethel Bailey Furman (1893-1976), the first Black woman to practice architecture in the Commonwealth of Virginia.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. A former pastor was Richmond mayor Leonidas B. Young, II, who was convicted of defrauding the city at one point during his career.[4]