First Baptist Church of Orange, Baptist church in Orange, California

First Baptist Church of Orange stands at 192 S. Orange Street, a Baptist church built in 1893 and altered in 1912 in a Queen Anne—Carpenter Gothic style. Its exterior combines Queen Anne massing with Carpenter Gothic pointed arches and decorative woodwork. The building stopped operating as a church in 1992 and is now owned by Avila's El Ranchito, a Mexican restaurant chain based in Orange County.

The First Baptist Church of Orange was built in 1893 and remodeled in 1912 in a Queen Anne—Carpenter Gothic style. It also served as the First Missionary Baptist Church and Antioch Baptist Church. The congregation stopped using it as a church in 1992, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

The building carried three names over its life: First Baptist Church of Orange, First Missionary Baptist Church and Antioch Baptist Church. Since 1992 it has housed a branch of Avila's El Ranchito, the Orange County Mexican restaurant chain that owns it, so the former sanctuary now serves diners on South Orange Street.

The building no longer operates as a church and now houses a restaurant in its interior spaces. Visitors should be aware that the inside is not open for viewing in its original religious function.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, four years after it stopped operating as a church. It now belongs to Avila's El Ranchito, a Mexican restaurant chain based in Orange County.