First Baptist Church was a historic

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located at 401 S. Scales Street in Reidsville,

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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

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in 1986. It has since been demolished.

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