Area less than one acre MPS Stamford MRA RTHL # 15310 Phone +1 325-773-2781 | Built 1908 NRHP Reference # 86002359 Opened 1908 Added to NRHP 24 September 1986 | |
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Address 214 N Swenson St, Stamford, TX 79553, USA Architectural style Colonial Revival architecture Similar Wonderland Park, Wet'n'Wild SplashTown, Joyland Amusement Park, NRH2O, SeaWorld San Antonio | ||
First Baptist Church is a historic church at E. Oliver and N. Swenson in Stamford, Texas. Built in 1908, the church is a large, domed structure built on a Greek Cross form and covered with buff colored brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 1986 and designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1989. A two-story educational building was added in 1932 and another educational wing in 1960.
The First Baptist Church was organized in Stamford in early 1900. Frank Shelby Groner became pastor in 1905. He increased the membership from 147 to about 750 and that made a new and larger church necessary. After using temporary facilities for seven years, the congregation had grown and prospered enough to initiate a new structure. Ten leading members of the church each pledged $1,000 for construction, and the new church stood as one of the city's most elaborate and expensive structures.