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Delevan Baptist Church

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First Baptist Church West Main Street, Charlottesville, VA Sarah Stierch
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Delevan Baptist Church, also known as First Baptist Church and First Colored Baptist Church, is a historic African-American Baptist church building located at 632 W. Main Street in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1883, and is a one-story, three bay by six bay, Victorian Romanesque style brick church. It sits on a raised basement and features with a square projecting central tower topped by a large octagonal lantern on a square base, both of wood.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Fifeville and Tonsler Neighborhoods Historic District.

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Delevan Baptist Church
Walker Square, Charlottesville

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Walker Square 705
22903 Charlottesville
Virginia, United States
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