Delevan Baptist Church

632 W. Main St., Charlottesville (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Charlottesville.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 21, 1982. NRIS 82001802.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • First Baptist Church
  • First Colored Baptist Church

From Wikipedia:

Delevan Baptist Church

Delevan Baptist Church, also known as First Baptist Church and First Colored Baptist Church, is a historic African-American Baptist church building located at 632 W. Main Street in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1883, and is a one-story, three bay by six bay, Victorian Romanesque style brick church. It sits on a raised basement and features with a square projecting central tower topped by a large octagonal lantern on a square base, both of wood.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Fifeville and Tonsler Neighborhoods Historic District.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678653

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