Portland Baptist Church - Portland, MO
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 38° 42.651 W 091° 43.064
15S E 611486 N 4285470
Old Baptist church on the main drag...MO-94
Waymark Code: WMZ37Z
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/04/2018
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County of church: Callaway County
Location of church: MO-94 & Market St., Portland
Elevation: 761 feet
Population: 43
Sign:
PORTLAND
BAPTIST
CHURCH
A Beacon of Hope!
Sunday School: 10 am.
Worship: 11 am.
Sunday Evening: 7 pm.
Wed. Evening: 6 pm.
I can not find a foot print on the web for this church, and can find no affiliation listing for this church. But locals told me it is active, and most popular around these parts.
Bell is believed to the the old school house bell, school destroyed in 2010 by fire.
"The minutes of the Unity Baptist Church notes a donation to the Portland Church Building Fund in July 1911, but little else could be
easily found about the church in the historic record. It is mentioned as being constructed about 1920 in a brief history of Portland.
"The church sits just of Highway 94 in the small town of Portland. Around the building are scattered commercial and residential
buildings.
"This frame church building was apparently originally a gable end church, with the original entrance in the east side. Now the east
elevation is marked by a small, centered, fixed pane window. There has been some excavation around the foundation to provide a
basement entrance. The original configuration is difficult to ascertain from the exterior due to the cladding of the building in vinyl siding.
The north elevation is four bay with the entrance in the west bay."
~ Missouri Department of Natural Resources