Name/Title
Memorial Baptist Church (153 Alexander Street)Entry/Object ID
ALEXANDER.153.1Description
B&W photographs of 153 Alexander Street (Memorial Baptist Church), street (front) elevation, corner view. Two copies of photograph in sleeve.
Constructed ca. 1886; renovated mid-1970s. From 1818 onward this site served as a Baptist burial ground. In the years after the Civil War several different Baptist congregations occupied the property, including the Second Baptist Church and the First Colored Baptist Church, both with burial grounds. Soon thereafter, the group built the wooden core of the present building in a vernacular meetinghouse stile. Covered with brick veneer in 1976 and embellished with Colonial Revival details, Memorial Baptist Church continues at this site, long occupied by black and white Baptists.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Property RecordsAcquisition
Accession
ALEXANDER.153.Source or Donor
153 Alexander Street (Memorial Baptist Church)Acquisition Method
Collected by StaffMade/Created
Artist
Saunders, Katherine (HCF)Date made
circa 1996Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Alexander Street, Mazyckborough and Wraggborough, Churches/Synagogues/Houses of Worship, Memorial Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.), Church buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Baptist churches--South Carolina--CharlestonLocation
Location
Cabinet
Photo File CabinetsRoom
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Relationships
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Notes
Buildings of Charleston (p. 589)Copyright
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