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Union Baptist Church (other)
Union Baptist Church may refer to: *Union Baptist Church (Hartford, Connecticut), listed on the NRHP in Connecticut *Union Baptist Church (Baltimore, Maryland) The Union Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church building located at 1219 Druid Hill Avenue in central Baltimore, Maryland. The granite church was designed by New York architect William J. Beardsley and built in 1905 under the leadership o ..., listed on the NRHP in Maryland * Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts * Union Baptist Church (New Rochelle, New York) * Union Baptist Church (Cincinnati, Ohio) * Union Baptist Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Ohio * West Union Baptist Church, West Union, Oregon, listed on the NRHP in Oregon * Union Baptist Church (Allentown, Pennsylvania) {{disambiguation, church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Baptist Church (Hartford, Connecticut)
The Union Baptist Church is a historic church at 1913 and 1921 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Originally built by an Episcopal congregation, it has for many years been home to an African-American Baptist congregation, which under the leadership of Rev. John C. Jackson (1866-1953), played a significant role in advancing the cause of civil rights in the state. The church, and its adjacent parsonage, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Architecture and history The Union Baptist Church is locate in Hartford's northern Clay-Arsenal neighborhood, on the west side of Main Street near its junction with Mahl Avenue. It is an Early English Gothic stone structure, designed by Henry Martyn Congdon and built in 1871, with a number of later additions. It has a roughly cruciform plan, with a rounded apse and short transepts. The main entrance is set near the rear end of the south side, under a Stick style gabled portico. Modern additions housing offices ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Baptist Church (Baltimore, Maryland)
The Union Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church building located at 1219 Druid Hill Avenue in central Baltimore, Maryland. The granite church was designed by New York architect William J. Beardsley and built in 1905 under the leadership of Rev. Harvey Johnson. The Gothic Revival structure features steeply pitched roofs, lancet windows, and distinctive buttressing on the front facade to provide support for the walls on a constrained lot size. The church was built for a predominantly African-American congregation established in 1852; its minister from 1872 to 1923, Rev. Harvey Johnson, was a prominent voice in the civil rights movement. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Baltimore This is a list of National Register of Historic Places properties and districts in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Many other properties are located in other parts of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts)
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. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. See also * Times and Olympia Buildings, also designed by Smith in New Bedford and NRHP-listed. *National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts List of Registered Historic Places in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Former listings See also *List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts References {{DEFAULTSORT:National Register ... References Baptist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Baptist Church (New Rochelle, New York)
Union Baptist Church was a historic house of worship located in Downtown New Rochelle, in Westchester County, New York. The church was added to Westchester Inventory of Historic Places in 1994, chosen for its cultural and historical characteristics as well as for its Neo-Romanesque edifice and unique architectural details. History Two different congregations compose the cultural heritage of the church. It was originally built by the predominantly white Salem Baptist Church congregation. The current congregation, Union Baptist Church, is one of New Rochelle's earliest black religious organizations. The church was designed by architect Arthur Bates Jennings, who configured the building's interior using the Akron Plan The Akron Plan was a scheme for the design of churches and other religious buildings that housed Sunday schools. It was characterized by a set of wedge-shaped classrooms that radiated from the direction of a central superintendent's platform. D ..., an open sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Baptist Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)
The Union Baptist Church is Cincinnati's oldest black church. The church was founded on July 14, 1831. They had their first meeting in a building on Third Street, between Elm and Plum Streets, downtown. The members built a church on Central Avenue and called Rev. David Leroy Nickens of Chillicothe, Ohio as its first pastor. By the end of its first decade, the church had grown sufficiently to require a new building and by 1839, moved to a new location on Baker Street, where they remained for twenty-five years. Nickens was succeeded by Rev. Charles Satchell in 1838, who in turn was succeeded by William P. Newman in 1848. When Newman fled to Canada because of the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, he was succeeded by Rev. Henry Adams, who served until 1855; Rev. H. L. Simpson, who served until 1858; and Rev. H. H. White who served three years. William Newman returned in 1864, serving until his death in the 1866 cholera epidemic. Simpson returned to fill the vacancy, serving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Baptist Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Union Baptist Cemetery located at 4933 Cleves Warsaw Pike, in the Price Hill neighborhood, is a registered historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 2002. It contains a single contributing building. The cemetery is the oldest Baptist African-American cemetery in Cincinnati. History The cemetery was established by the Union Baptist Church in 1864 by members of the Union Baptist Church. Almost 150 other USCT veterans are buried at Union Baptist Cemeter Notable burials * Newt Allen, a Negro league baseball player * Powhatan Beaty, a Medal of Honor recipient and American Civil War veteran of the 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment. * Bishop Mary Beck Bell, founder of the Spiritualist Church of the Soul * Tiny Bradshaw, musician * Edith Hern Fossett, enslaved cook for Thomas Jefferson at President's House (White House) and head cook at Monticello * Hon. George W. Hayes * David Leroy Nickens * Consuelo Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Union Baptist Church
West Union Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation and historic church structure in West Union, Oregon, United States. History The Baptist congregation was founded in 1844 and met in the home of pioneer David Thomas Lenox until 1853, when he donated of his land for a church and cemetery.Buan, Carolyn M. ''This Far-Off Sunset Land: A Pictorial History of Washington County, Oregon''. Donning Company Publishers, 1999.Historic names mark old gravestones. ''The Hillsboro Argus'', October 19, 1976. The one-story, Classical Revival style building was built of hand-sawn lumber on what is now West Union Road for a little over $1,500. The 30- by structure has cedar rafters, fir joists and sills of hand-hewn fir logs. On December 25, 1853, the building was dedicated by the Reverend Ezra Fisher. It is the oldest Baptist society and the oldest Protestant church building still standing west of the Rocky Mountains. Pioneers Caleb Wilkens and George W. Ebbert are buried at the cemetery, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |