Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts)
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.
See also
- Times and Olympia Buildings, also designed by Smith in New Bedford and NRHP-listed.
- National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Union Baptist Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-17.