Organized in 1869, this church was an outgrowth of the Beach Institute (9.1), a school where white missionary teachers taught African American children shortly after the Civil War. The congregation acquired this property in 1878 and later built this modest Gothic Revival brick meetinghouse, which has a front-gabled facade and square corner tower with a short spire.
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "First Congregational Church", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-8.28.
Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 155-155.
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