128-0037

First Baptist Church

VLR Listing Date

08/21/1990

NRHP Listing Date

12/06/1990

NRHP Delisting Date

03/19/2001

NRHP Reference Number

90001840

VLR Delisting Date

03/19/1997

Designed by the prolific Roanoke architect H. H. Huggins, First Baptist Church housed what was at the time the largest and most prominent African American congregation west of Richmond. Completed in 1900 and located in the Gainsboro neighborhood in Roanoke, the  large First Baptist Church with Romanesque and Gothic detailing was gutted by fire in 1995, and the ruins were subsequently demolished.

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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark

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