Built 1899 Opened 1899 Added to NRHP 16 June 2008 | NRHP Reference # 08000532 Area 3,642 m² | |
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Location 109 Court St., New Bedford, Massachusetts Architectural style Shingle style architecture Similar New Bedford Museum, Butler Flats Light, Palmer Island Light Station, Rotch–Jones–Duff House and Garden M, New Bedford Whaling | ||
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.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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