Eighth Street Baptist Church

Eighth Street Baptist Church

Eighth Street Baptist Church Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
1891. 1907, rebuilt. 600 W. 8th St. (southwest corner of Elizabeth St.)

Pueblo's African Americans, many of whom worked in nearby mansions, used this church as a social, recreational, and cultural as well as religious center. They constructed their humble brick church with a stone foundation, an abbreviated tower inset at the northeast corner, and Gothic-arched windows with wood tracery and leaded glass.

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