First Baptist Church is a historic African-American

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complex located at

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. The property includes two churches. One of the churches was built about 1890, and is a

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style frame church. After construction of the 1911 church, it served as a classroom annex and cafeteria for a nearby school. The 1911 church is a Gothic Revival /

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brick church. It features a corner belfry tower, lancet arched stained-glass windows, and a modernistic 1955 education wing. an
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in 2002.

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