Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts)

Union Baptist Church

Union Baptist Church
Location 109 Court St., New Bedford, Massachusetts
Area less than one acre
Built 1899
Architect Smith, Nathaniel Cannon
Architectural style Shingle Style
NRHP Reference # 08000532[1]
Added to NRHP June 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 Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Union Baptist Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-17.


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