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The First Baptist Church is a historic church located at 81 St. Paul Street in Burlington, Vermont. Built in 1864, it is a significant example of early
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
ecclesiastical architecture in the state. It was designed by
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architect John Stevens. The church was added to the
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in 2001.


Architecture and history

The First Baptist Church is located in central Burlington, on the west side of St. Paul Street south of Bank Street. It is a rectangular two-story structure, with a timber frame and red brick exterior built on a red stone foundation. A three-story tower projects from the center of the front facade, topped by a distinctive multistage copper-clad steeple. The building's Italianate features include brackets in the gable and eaves, and round-headed windows on the second level. The front building corners and the tower have shallow buttresses. The interior is reflective of later alterations, and is less ornate than when it was originally built. with The Baptist Society of Burlington was organized in 1830, the first Baptist services having been held in the city in 1822. They first met in rented space, before building their own edifice at Main and Church Streets in 1845. Having outgrown that space, they commissioned Thomas Hill of
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to build a larger building for them. Finding issues with the new design, he recommended John Stevens of Boston, who produced the design for the present building. It was dedicated on December 15, 1864.


See also

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Official website
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