Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts) Explained

Union Baptist Church
Location:109 Court St., New Bedford, Massachusetts
Built:1899
Architect:Smith, Nathaniel Cannon
Architecture:Shingle Style
Added:June 16, 2008
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:08000532

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.[1]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NRHP nomination for Union Baptist Church. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2014-06-17.