First Baptist Church (Muskogee, Oklahoma)

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First Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
First Baptist Church (Muskogee, Oklahoma) (Oklahoma)
First Baptist Church (Muskogee, Oklahoma)
Location: Muskogee, Oklahoma
Coordinates: 35°45′9.97″N 95°22′26.26″W / 35.7527694, -95.3739611Coordinates: 35°45′9.97″N 95°22′26.26″W / 35.7527694, -95.3739611
Built/Founded: 1903
Architect: Unknown
Architectural style(s): No Style Listed
Added to NRHP: September 25, 1984
NRHP Reference#: 84003164[1]
MPS: Black Protestant Churches of Muskogee TR
Governing body: Private

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 Romaneasque 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]

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
  2. ^ a b c Bryan Brown (February, 1984), National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Black Protestant Churches in Muskogee TRPDF (32 MiB), National Park Service 


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