First Baptist Church, Baptist church in Trenton, Florida
First Baptist Church is a Protestant church building at East Wade Street and Northeast 2nd Street in Trenton, Florida. The red brick structure has a raised main floor, with full-size windows set at basement level above the ground. The church complex was expanded to the north and east.
The congregation was founded in 1884. The present brick building dates from the 1920s, not 1943, and was listed in the 1989 Florida historical architecture guide published by the University Press of Florida. The church complex was later enlarged to the north and east, and the building is no longer the main home of the active congregation.
The church serves as a central gathering place for Trenton's community and marks the streetscape with its distinctive red brick form. Locals recognize it as a significant landmark in the town's downtown area.
The building stands at the corner of East Wade Street and Northeast 2nd Street in Trenton, with the raised main floor set above a basement level whose full-size windows sit above ground. The exterior can be viewed from the public sidewalk; the congregation now worships in the expanded complex to the north and east.
The 1920s building was listed in the 1989 Guide to the Architecture of Florida published by the University Press of Florida, and photographs of it are held on Wikimedia Commons. The congregation itself dates to 1884, and the church complex was later extended to the north and east.
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