Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts)
Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts) is located in the United States
Union Baptist Church (New Bedford, Massachusetts)
Location109 Court St., New Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°38′03″N 70°56′05″W / 41.63423°N 70.93473°W / 41.63423; -70.93473
Arealess than one acre
Built1899
ArchitectSmith, Nathaniel Cannon
Architectural styleShingle Style
NRHP reference No.08000532[1]
Added to NRHPJune 16, 2008

Union Baptist Church is a historic church at 109 Court Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. It was built in 1899 to a design by Nathaniel Cannon Smith in Shingle Style architecture. The congregation was founded in 1895 by a merger of two African American congregations that had split some four decades earlier. This historical church group was a leading New Bedford institution associated with the assistance of fugitive slaves in the pre-Civil War period.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Union Baptist Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-17.


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