Springfield Baptist Church (Augusta, Georgia)
Springfield Baptist Church | |
Location | 112 12th St. (original) and 114 12th St. (increase), Augusta, Georgia |
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Coordinates | 33°28′43″N 81°58′18″W / 33.47861°N 81.97167°W |
Built | 1801 (both) |
Architect | Todd, Albert Whitner (increase) |
Architectural style | Gothic (increase) |
NRHP reference No. | 82002461[1] (original) 90000979 (increase) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | June 17, 1982 |
Boundary increase | July 5, 1990 |
Springfield Baptist Church is a
It was built in the architectural style of a
History
Architecture
"The simple, two-story rectangular wooden building has two doors at the first floor topped by two arched windows and a smaller arched attic window in the gable of the street facade. The east and west sides of the church boast first and second-floor ranges of seven wooden 12/12 windows. The interior of the church has an assembly-hall plan consisting of a shallow vestibule on the north end and a long narrow meeting hall."[3]
In 1844, the Methodists built a new brick church at 736 Greene Street.
In 1897, the congregation built a new church on the site, in the Late
Baptist congregation
The Baptist church congregation predates the building and was founded in 1787,[2] by Reverend Jesse Peters.[4] The congregation claims continuous ties with Silver Bluff Baptist Church, founded 1774–1775 in South Carolina as one of the first black Baptist congregations in the nation.[5] For this reason, the historian Walter Brooks suggested it was the oldest black Baptist congregation.[6] The First Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia was organized in 1774 and also contends for this distinction.
See also
- List of the oldest buildings in Georgia
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form (FHR-8-300) #82002461". United States Department of the Interior, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. June 17, 1982.
- ^ a b "Augusta Springfield Church", North Georgia, National Park Service Historic Itinerary, accessed 27 Sep 2010
- ^ "Springfield Baptist Church". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ Albert J. Raboteau, Slave Religion: The "invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.139, accessed 21 Jan 2009
- ^ Walter H. Brooks, "The Priority of the Silver Bluff Church and Its Promoters", Journal of Negro History (April 1922)
External links
- Springfield Baptist Church, New Georgia Encyclopedia