First Baptist Church (Reidsville, North Carolina)

First Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	401 S. Scales St., Reidsville, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°21′26″N79°39′52″W / 36.35722°N 79.66444°W / 36.35722; -79.66444
Area	less than one acre
Built	1918
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
MPS	Reidsville MRA
NRHP reference No.	86003386 [1]
Added to NRHP	December 11, 1986

First Baptist Church was a historic Southern Baptist church located at 401 S. Scales Street in Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina. 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. ^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. ^[1] It has since been demolished.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Allison Harris Black (November 1985). "First Baptist Church" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.