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First Baptist Meetinghouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
Contributing Property
Front elevation, 2008
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Location
Providence, RI
Coordinates
41°49′38″N 71°24′29″W / 41.82722°N 71.40806°W / 41.82722; -71.40806Coordinates: 41°49′38″N 71°24′29″W / 41.82722°N 71.40806°W / 41.82722; -71.40806
Built
1775
Architect
Joseph Brown; Multiple
Architectural style
Georgian
Part of
College Hill Historic District (#70000019)
NRHP reference #
66000017
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
October 15, 1966[1]
Designated NHL
October 9, 1960[2]
Designated NHLDCP
November 10, 1970
Inside Church
The First Baptist Church in America is the First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island, also known as the First Baptist Meetinghouse. It is the oldest Baptist church congregation in the United States, founded by Roger Williams in Providence, Rhode Island in 1638. The present church building was erected in 1774–75 and held its first meetings in May 1775. It is located at 75 North Main Street in Providence's College Hill neighborhood and is a National Historic Landmark.
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1 History
1.1 Association with Brown University
2 Today
3 Affiliations
4 Gallery
5 Settled ministers (sometimes simultaneous pastorships)
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
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Roger Williams had been holding religious services in his home for nearly a year before he converted his congregation into a Baptist church in 1638. This followed his founding of Providence in 1636. For the next sixty years, the congregation met outside in nice weather or in congregants' homes. Baptists in Rhode Island through most of the 17th century declined to erect meetinghouses because they felt that buildings reflected vanity. Eventually, however, they came to see the utility of some gathering place, and they erected severely plain-style meetinghouses like the Quakers.
Roger Williams was a Calvinist, but within a few years of its founding, the congregation became more Arminian, and was clearly a General Six-Principle Baptist church by 1652. It remained a General Baptist church until it switched back to a Calvinist variety under the leadership of James Manning in the 1770s. Following Williams as pastor of the church was Rev. Chad Brown, founder of the famous Brown family of Rhode Island. A number of the streets in Providence bear the names of pastors of First Baptist Church, including Williams, Brown, Gregory Dexter, Thomas Olney, William Wickenden, Manning, and Stephen Gano. In 1700 Reverend Pardon Tillinghast built the first church building, a 400-square-foot (37 m2) structure, near the corner of Smith and North Main Streets. In 1711 he donated the building and land to the church in a deed describing the church as General Six-Principle Baptist in theology. In 1736 the congregation built its second meetinghouse on an adjoining lot at the corner of Smith and North Main Streets. This building was about 40 × 40 feet square.
When it was built in 1774–75, the current Meeting House represented a dramatic departure from the traditional Baptist meetinghouse style. It was the first Baptist meetinghouse to have a steeple and bell, making it more like Anglican and Congregational church buildings. The builders were part of a movement among Baptists in the urban centers of Boston, Newport, New York, and Philadelphia to bring respectability and recognition to Baptists.
Association with Brown University[edit]
Central to that movement was the creation of an educated ministry and the founding of a college. The Philadelphia Association of Baptist Churches sent Dr. James Manning to Rhode Island to found the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (later renamed Brown University) in 1764. Beginning in Warren, the college then relocated to Providence in 1770. The college president, the Reverend Manning was called to be the pastor of the Providence church in 1771, and during his ministry the present Meeting House was erected "for the publick worship of Almighty God and also for holding commencement in."[3] Subsequent Brown presidents Maxcy and Wayland also served as ministers at the church. The Brown family that soon gave its name to the University were prominent members of the Church, and descendants of founders of the Church, as well as, the Rhode Island Colony (the second pastor of the congregation after Roger Williams was Rev. Chad Brown). Although the university is now secular, in honor of its history and tradition, the Meeting House continues, as it has since 1776, to be the site for Brown University's undergraduate commencement.[4]
Construction began on the building in the summer of 1774, and it was the biggest building project in New England at the time. Due to the closure of the Massachusetts ports by the British as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, out-of-work ship builders and carpenters came to Providence to work on the Meeting House. The main portion of the Meeting House was dedicated in mid-May 1775, and the steeple erected in just three days in the first week of June. Notable additions to the Meeting House have included a Waterford crystal chandelier given by Hope Brown Ives (1792), a large pipe organ given by her brother Nicholas Brown, Jr., the younger (1834), the creation of rooms for Sunday school, fellowship hall, and offices on the lower level (1819–59), and an addition to the east end of the Meeting House to accommodate an indoor baptistery (1884). The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.[2][1]
Today[edit]
The First Baptist Church in America signage.
In addition to weekly worship services, the Meeting House hosts concerts, talks, and lectures by world-renowned artists, performers, academics, and elected officials. Brown University holds commencement services at The Meeting House.
In 2001, History professor J. Stanley Lemons wrote a history of the church, entitled First: The History of the First Baptist Church in America[5][6]
Affiliations[edit]
The First Baptist Church in America is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island (ABCORI) and the American Baptist Churches/USA (ABCUSA). The church actively supports the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, the Baptist World Alliance, and the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. Many members have served in various denominational, academic, and divinity school positions, including the presidency of Brown University.
Gallery[edit]
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First Baptist Church in America in the 1800s
First Baptist Church in undated postcard
Interior view
Steeple viewed from east.
Settled ministers (sometimes simultaneous pastorships)[edit]
Roger Williams, 1638–39
Chad Brown, 1639 – before 1650
Thomas Olney, 1639–1652
William Wickenden, 1642–1670
Gregory Dexter, 1654–1700
Pardon Tillinghast, 1681–1718
Ebenezer Jenckes 1719–1726
James Brown 1726–1732
Samuel Winsor, 1733–1758
Thomas Burlingame 1733–1764
Samuel Winsor, Jr, 1759–1771
James Manning, 1771–1791
John Stanford, 1788–1789
Jonathan Maxcy, 1791–1792
Stephen Gano MD, 1792–1828
Robert Pattison, 1830–36
William Hague, 1837–40
Robert Pattison,1840–1842
James Granger, 1842–1857
Francis Wayland, 1857–1858
Samuel Caldwell, 1858–1873
Edward G. Taylor, 1875–1881
Thomas Edwin Brown, 1882–1890
Henry Melville King, 1891–1906
Elijah Abraham Hanley, 1907–1911
John F. Vichert, 1912–1916
Albert B. Cohoe, 1916–1920
Arthur W. Cleaves, 1922–1940
Albert C. Thomas, 1941–1954
Homer L. Trickett, 1955–1970
Robert G. Withers, 1971–1975
Richard D. Bausman, 1976–1982
Orland L. Tibbetts, 1983–1986
Dwight M. Lundgren, 1983–1996
Kate Harvey Penfield, 1987–1995
Clifford R. Hockensmith, 1997–1999
James C. Miller, 2000–2005
Dan Ivins, 2006–2014
Jamie Paige Washam, 2015-
See also[edit]
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Rhode Island portal
Architecture portal
List of tallest buildings in Providence, Rhode Island
Oldest churches in the United States
List of National Historic Landmarks in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
^ Jump up to: a b "First Baptist Meetinghouse". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
Jump up ^ "History", Commencement, Brown University, 2010 .
Jump up ^ "Commencement/Reunion Overview: Brown University to Hold 237th Commencement on Sunday, May 29". Providence, RI, USA: Brown University. 2005-05-05. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
Jump up ^ J. Stanley Lemons, "The Browns and the Baptists," Rhode Island History 67 (Summer/Fall, 2009), 74-82.
Jump up ^ Lemons, J (2008-12-05). "Williams wasn't a 'free-thinker'". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
External links[edit]
Official website
Meeting House info
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. RI-38, "First Baptist Meetinghouse, 75 North Main Street, Providence, Providence County, RI", 37 photos, 5 data pages, supplemental material
SAH Archipedia entry
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