Fourth Baptist Church | |
Location | 2800 P St., Richmond, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°32′9″N 77°24′36″W / 37.53583°N 77.41000°W |
Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Built | 1884 |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 79003291 [1] |
VLR No. | 127-0318 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | September 7, 1979 |
Designated VLR | May 15, 1979 [2] |
Fourth Baptist Church is a Baptist church located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1884, and is a three-story, Greek Revival style stuccoed brick structure. It features a distyle portico in antis elevated on a high podium. It consists of two unfluted Doric order columns and paired pilasters supporting a Doric entablature. Attached to the church is a Sunday School building erected in 1964. [3]
The addition was designed by Ethel Bailey Furman (1893-1976), the first Black woman to practice architecture in the Commonwealth of Virginia. [4]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] A former pastor was Richmond mayor Leonidas B. Young, II, who was convicted of defrauding the city at one point during his career. [5]