First Baptist Church (Stamford, Texas)

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First Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

First Baptist Church
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Location	E. Oliver and N. Swenson, Stamford, Texas
Coordinates	32°56′50″N 99°48′8″W / 32.94722°N 99.80222°W / 32.94722; -99.80222
Area	less than one acre
Built	1908 (1908)
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Stamford MRA
NRHP reference No.	86002359^[1]
RTHL No.	15310
Added to NRHP	September 24, 1986
Designated RTHL	1989

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at E. Oliver and N. Swenson in Stamford, Texas. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Built in 1908, the church is a large, domed structure built on a Greek Cross form and covered with buff-colored brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 1986, and designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1989. A two-story educational building was added in 1932 and another educational wing in 1960.

The First Baptist Church was organized in Stamford in early 1900. Frank Shelby Groner became pastor in 1905. He increased the membership from 147 to about 750 and that made a new and larger church necessary.^[2] After using temporary facilities for seven years, the congregation had grown and prospered enough to initiate a new structure. Ten leading members of the church each pledged $1,000 for construction, and the new church stood as one of the city's most elaborate and expensive structures.

References

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^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Our New Secretary", Baptist Standard: 6, July 18, 1918

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First Baptist Church of Stamford, Texas Archived 2016-02-21 at the Wayback Machine

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