First Baptist Church

401 S. Scales St., Reidsville, North Carolina. County/parish: Rockingham.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 11, 1986. NRIS 86003386.

Part of Reidsville MRA (NRIS 64000463).

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • First Baptist Church (former)

From Wikipedia:

First Baptist Church (Reidsville, North Carolina)

First Baptist Church was a historic Southern Baptist church located at 401 S. Scales Street in Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1918, and was a Late Gothic Revival-style brick church. It has a three bay wide front facade with crenellated towers of unequal height and a three-part tracery stained glass window. It was home to an African-American Baptist congregation until the mid-1970s.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It has since been demolished.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718376