Area 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) Architect Hunt, Reuben H. | Built 1906 (1906) NRHP Reference # 83003297 | |
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Location 418 E. Bute St., Norfolk, Virginia Architectural style Romanesque, Romanesque Revival | ||
First Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located at Norfolk, Virginia. It was designed by noted architect R. H. Hunt and dedicated in 1906. It is a Romanesque Revival-style church with a richly ornamented facade of rough-faced, pink granite ashlar and limestone trim. It features a tall, eight-level corner tower with a multiplicity of window types and a shorter flanking tower at the opposite corner.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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