First Free Will Baptist Church

  • Also Known As: First Ossipee, Wakefield and Effingham Church

  • Address: Granite Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1856/00/00 With the Early Settlers' Meetinghouse in disrepair, the First Free Will Baptist Church splits into liberal and conservative factions. The more liberal group will leave and build their own church, the First Ossipee and Wakefield Church.
1856/04/00 Joseph S Nutter Member Eight men meet at the home of Nathaniel Gowdy, and organized the First Free Will Baptist Society of Ossipee, Wakefield and Effingham. The purpose of the Society is to build a new meetinghouse on Granite Road, about a half mile east of Leighton's Corners.
1857/00/00 Joseph S Nutter Architect Begun in 1856, construction of the meetinghouse is finished in early 1857, supervised by head carpenter Joseph Nutter, one of the eight men who first met to organize the Society.
1857/04/16 Members of the 1st Ossipee and the 2nd Wakefield Free Will Baptist churches meet at the new Meeting House. Both churches are dissolved by vote of their members, who then organize the First Ossipee and Wakefield Church. Effingham will be added later.

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Particulars for First Free Will Baptist Church:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Greek Revival
Owner Private
Historic Use Religious Property



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 84002518
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Nutter,Joseph
Architectural Style: Greek revival
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Religious property
Period of Significance: 1850-1874
Significant Year: 1856, 1857
Historic Function: Religion
Historic Sub-Function: Religious structure
Current Function: Religion
Current Sub-Function: Religious structure

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