Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts)

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Location109 Court St., New Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°38′03″N70°56′05″W / 41.63423°N 70.93473°W / 41.63423; -70.93473
Arealess than one acre
Built1899
ArchitectSmith, Nathaniel Cannon
Architectural style Shingle Style
NRHP reference No. 08000532 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 16, 2008

Union Baptist Church is a historic church at 109 Court Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. It was built in 1899 to a design by Nathaniel Cannon Smith in Shingle Style architecture. The congregation was founded in 1895 by a merger of two African American congregations that had split some four decades earlier. This historical church group was a leading New Bedford institution associated with the assistance of fugitive slaves in the pre-Civil War period. [2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Union Baptist Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-17.