Beale Street Baptist Church - Memphis, TN
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N 35° 08.350 W 090° 02.924
15S E 768891 N 3892463
The Beale Street Baptist Church is in the WPA Guide for Tennessee.
Waymark Code: WM18JMK
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2023
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"Beale Street Baptist Church, also known as, First Baptist Church or Beale Avenue Baptist Church, is a historic church on Beale Street, built by a congregation of freed slaves in Memphis, Tennessee. It was designed by the prominent Memphis architectural firm Jones & Baldwin, a partnership between Edward Culliatt Jones and Matthias Baldwin. Its foundation stone was laid in 1869, and it was constructed between 1871 and 1885.[2][3] In the late 1880s, the church also housed the newspaper office of Ida B. Wells, the famous civil rights journalist. Over the years, Ulysses S. Grant and Teddy Roosevelt made visits to the church." (
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