Area less than one acre MPS Charlottesville MRA VLR # 104-0376 Architectural style Romanesque architecture | Built 1883 NRHP Reference # 82001802 Opened 1883 Added to NRHP 21 October 1982 | |
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Location 632 W. Main St., Charlottesville, Virginia Similar University of Virginia, Monticello, Jefferson Theater, The Lawn, Live Arts | ||
Delevan Baptist Church, also known as First Baptist Church and First Colored Baptist Church, is a historic African-American Baptist church building located at 632 W. Main Street in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1883, and is a one-story, three bay by six bay, Victorian Romanesque style brick church. It sits on a raised basement and features with a square projecting central tower topped by a large octagonal lantern on a square base, both of wood.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Fifeville and Tonsler Neighborhoods Historic District.
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