First Baptist Church-Newport News | |
Location | 119 29th St., Newport News, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 36°58′48″N 76°25′59″W / 36.98000°N 76.43306°W |
Area | Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Built | 1903 |
Architect | R. H. Hunt |
Architectural style | Richardsonian Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 00000774 [1] |
Added to NRHP | May 11, 2000 |
The First Baptist Church is a historic church building, now housing the non-denominational Dominion Outreach Worship Center, at 119 29th Street in Newport News, Virginia. Built in 1902, the church is a prominent local example of Romanesque Revival architecture executed in stone. It was designed by R.H. Hunt of Chattanooga. It is fronted by a three-arch recessed porch, flanked by a tower on the left whose upper stages have rounded corners, and is capped by a pyramidal roof with conical turrets at the corners. The congregation was organized in the 1880s, and occupied this site until the 1980s. [2] [3] The congregation opened a suburban chapel in 1979. It operated on both sites for many years before closing the 29th Street church. [4]
The building, and the attached education building, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1] Since First Baptist left the building has been owned and occupied by a number of churches. In 2000 it was owned by Rehoboth Fellowship Church, [3] later it was occupied by Calvary Revival Church Peninsula, and in 2022 by Dominion Outreach Worship Center.
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