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.