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Eighth Street Baptist Church

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1891. 1907, rebuilt. 600 W. 8th St. (southwest corner of Elizabeth St.)
  • (Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

Pueblo's African Americans, many of whom worked in nearby mansions, used this church as a social, recreational, and cultural as well as religious center. They constructed their humble brick church with a stone foundation, an abbreviated tower inset at the northeast corner, and Gothic-arched windows with wood tracery and leaded glass.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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What's Nearby

Sacred Heart Cathedral
First Presbyterian Church
Pueblo School District Administration Building
Pueblo County Courthouse
First National Bank

Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Eighth Street Baptist Church", [Pueblo, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-PE07.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 317-317.

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