Freewill Baptist Church-Peoples Baptist Church-New Hope Church

Freewill Baptist Church-Peoples Baptist Church-New Hope Church
Location 45 Pearl St., Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Coordinates 43°4′32″N 70°45′49″W / 43.07556°N 70.76361°W / 43.07556; -70.76361Coordinates: 43°4′32″N 70°45′49″W / 43.07556°N 70.76361°W / 43.07556; -70.76361
Area less than one acre
Built 1868
Architect Nathan Tarlton
Architectural style Italianate
NRHP Reference # 03000925[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP September 13, 2003
Designated NHSRHP January 28, 2002[2]

The Freewill Baptist Church—Peoples Baptist Church—New Hope Church is a historic church at 45 Pearl Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is a two story wood frame structure, built in 1857 and enlarged in 1868. It is an excellent local example of religious Italianate architecture, and is further notable as the first church building in New Hampshire to be owned by a predominantly African-American congregation. The church was built for a Freewill Baptist congregation, which also made the 1868 expansion, which enlarged the church to the front and added the steeple. It was purchased in 1915 by an offshoot of the Middle Street Baptist Church, which organized as the People's Baptist Church in 1893.[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]

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  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places". New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
  3. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Freewill Baptist Church-Peoples Baptist Church-New Hope Church" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-10-27.


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