119 29th St., Newport News (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Newport News.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 2000. NRIS 00000774.
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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682063