Demolished 1816 (fire--1st church) | Phone +1 908-322-5487 Construction started 1870 (for present church) | |
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Architectural style Gingerbread Ruskinian Gothic Completed c.1740 (for 1st church)c.1816 (for 2nd church)1870 (for 3rd and present church) Client Scotch Plains Baptist Church Structural system Masonry brick with Ohio stone dressing Address 333 Park Ave, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076, USA Similar Miller‑Cory House, Beacon Unitarian Universal, Bowcraft Amusement Park | ||
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Scotch Plains Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Park Avenue in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. The associated nearby Old Baptist Parsonage is a historic church parsonage, located at 347 Park Avenue, which was built in 1786 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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History
The present church is located in an American Revolutionary War-era cemetery known as "God’s Little Acre", with Watchung Mountains-quarried brown sandstone grave markers dating back to 1742. The original church dated from the early 18th century. After a fire, it was rebuilt around 1816. The present church was built in 1871 in a Gingerbread Ruskinian Gothic style “made of pressed brick with Ohio stone and white brick trimmings.”
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