Thursday, February 18, 2021

First Baptist Church, Burlington, N.C., Feb. 18, 1921

Burlington—The local congregation of the First Baptist church has completed plans for the erection of a new church building in the near future.

According to estimates the new edifice will cost about $75,000. The new house of worship will be erected on the site opposite the present building, and will front on East Davis and Broad streets.

The architecture design of the proposed new church building is of this Greek Ionic order.

From the front page of The Farmville Enterprise, Feb. 18, 1921. From Wickipedia: First Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church located at 400 S. Broad Street in Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1922–1924, and is a two-story, brick Neoclassical Revival style church building with stone ornamentation. 

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