Property

Location Information
(for the First Baptist Church)

Name:

First Baptist Church

Address:

202 7th Street, North

City/County:

Columbus, Lowndes County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

1908

Remodeling Date:

c.1930

Registration Information

NR District Name:

Columbus Central Commercial (1980)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

206

Context/Comments

An auditorium-plan church with concentric curved seating on a diagonal axis.

It is a contributing element (element #206) in the Columbus Central Commercial Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 23 April 1980.

It is included in "Shrines to Tomorrow" (1971) and "Historic Churches of Mississippi" (2007) (p. 38).