70. Free Will Baptist Church - Smithville--North Scituate - Scituate RI
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N 41° 49.977 W 071° 35.216
19T E 285188 N 4634464
The Free Will Baptists, who organized as a branch of the Smithfield Free Will Baptist Church after their split from the Congregational Church. The church was built in 1866.
Waymark Code: WM12FJY
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 05/16/2020
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A 1-story clapboarded church building ,sited gable end to the road, with two large 2-story gable-roofed rear additions dating from the twentieth century. It has a closed belfry and simple stained-glass windows, important original elements which have been retained. The street facade of the building was remodeled in the early twentieth century with quoins and a palladian window. The Free Will Baptists, who organized as a branch of the Smithfield Free Will Baptist Church after their split from the Congregational Church in the early 1830s, built this structure to replace their 1830s church building which burned in 1865.
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