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Designed by the prolific Roanoke architect H. H. Huggins, First Baptist Church housed what was at the time the largest and most prominent African American congregation west of Richmond. Completed in 1900 and located in the Gainsboro neighborhood in Roanoke, the large First Baptist Church with Romanesque and Gothic detailing was gutted by fire in 1995, and the ruins were subsequently demolished.
Many properties listed in the registers are private dwellings and are not open to the public, however many are visible from the public right-of-way. Please be respectful of owner privacy.
Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
