First Baptist Church was a historic
Southern Baptist
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church
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located at 401 S. Scales Street in
Reidsville,
Rockingham County, North Carolina
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. It was built in 1918, and was a
Late Gothic Revival style brick church. It has a three bay wide front facade with crenellated towers of unequal height and a three-part tracery stained glass window. It was home to an African-American Baptist congregation until the mid-1970s.
It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1986.
[ It has since been demolished.
]
References
African-American history of North Carolina
Baptist churches in North Carolina
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Gothic Revival church buildings in North Carolina
Churches completed in 1918
Churches in Rockingham County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, North Carolina
Southern Baptist Convention churches
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