First Baptist Church (Muskogee, Oklahoma)


First Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	Muskogee, Oklahoma
Coordinates	35°45′9.97″N 95°22′26.26″W / 35.7527694°N 95.3739611°W / 35.7527694; -95.3739611Coordinates: 35°45′9.97″N 95°22′26.26″W / 35.7527694°N 95.3739611°W / 35.7527694; -95.3739611
Built	1903
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	No Style Listed
MPS	Black Protestant Churches of Muskogee TR
NRHP Reference #	84003164^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 25, 1984

The First Baptist Church is a historic church building in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The church was built in 1903 and was the first church building for the African-American population of Muskogee County. It was built in a Romanesque Revival style. It features two asymmetrical, crenalated towers and a steeply pitched gabled roof. The build is clad in two types of red brick. The two types of brick are separated by a rusticated limestone belt course. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for architectural significance and for its importance in local African-American history.

First Baptist "evolved from a mission school founded in 1877 for blacks and Indians". It is one of four churches included in the Black Protestant Churches of Muskogee Theme Resource study.^[2]

Muskogee had a "thriving" black community with a business district of "several retail stores, physicians and attorneys offices, a black-owned bank, and a black newspaper, the Muskogee Cimeter."^[2] The population included 7,831 blacks in 1910 (31% of the total Muskogee population).^[2]

References

↑ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 3 Bryan Brown (February 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Black Protestant Churches in Muskogee TR" (pdf). National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-02-12.

Oklahoma State Historical Preservation Office entry

External links

Official page

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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