Downtown Baptist Church, is a historic church building located at 101 W. McBee Avenue in Greenville,

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. It was constructed in 1858 as the new home of First Baptist Church of Greenville, replacing an earlier structure on the banks of the Reedy River. The congregation of First Baptist Church vacated the site for a new campus on Cleveland Street in the late 1970s at which time a minority of the congregation elected to remain at the downtown site and start a new church under the name Downtown Baptist Church. The

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building, designed by architect Samuel Sloan, was built in 1858 and added to the

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in 1977. In 2011, the building was renovated, removing side galleries and balconies that were added in 1915. It is now the home of Grace Church.

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Baptist churches in South Carolina Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Churches completed in 1858 19th-century Baptist churches in the United States Churches in Greenville County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Greenville, South Carolina Samuel Sloan buildings {{SouthCarolina-church-stub