First Baptist Church (Bridgeport, Connecticut)


First Baptist Church is a historic church at 126 Washington Avenue in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was built around 1893 and added to the National Register in 1990.
It is Richardsonian Romanesque in style and is built of red sandstone from East Haven, Connecticut.
It was deemed to have "exceptional architectural significance: it is a building with high artistic values, an excellent example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture, and the work of a locally notable architect, Joseph W. Northrop."
It was the third building of the First Baptist Church, which was founded in 1837.