- Old Cambridge Baptist Church
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Old Cambridge Baptist Church
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Coordinates: 42°22′17″N 71°6′53″W / 42.37139°N 71.11472°WCoordinates: 42°22′17″N 71°6′53″W / 42.37139°N 71.11472°W Built: 1867 Architect: Esty, Alexander Rice Architectural style: Gothic Revival Governing body: Private MPS: Cambridge MRA NRHP Reference#: 82001968
[1]Added to NRHP: April 13, 1982 Old Cambridge Baptist Church is an historic Baptist church at 398 Harvard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The congregation was founded in 1844 when several members of First Baptist Church in Cambridge decided to start a new church. The original meeting house was sold to the Congregationalists and became North Avenue Congregational Church. In 1869 the church constructed the current meeting house, a larger Gothic revival stone building, designed by architect Alexander Rice Esty. Old Cambridge Baptist Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The church is currently home to various organizations and ministries, such as the Homeless Empowerment Project which publishes the Spare Change News street newspaper, the José Mateo Ballet Theatre, the Adbar Ethiopian Women's Alliance, the Cambridge Child and Family Associates, and others.[2]
Notable people affiliated with church
- Ezra Palmer Gould, pastor (1868), Christian author
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ "OCBC Ministries"
External links
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