[7] Antioch Baptist Church's location in a long-established African-American neighborhood faced the encroachment of the growing downtown business district by the 1950s.

Some of the buildings going up nearby after mid-century include the Allen Center complex and the Hyatt Regency hotel.

The church property is a mere two blocks from the freeway and from Sam Houston Park.

Rod Davis of the San Antonio Express-News said that the presence of the sign, which "still makes a footnote to the downtown skyscrapers," was "evidence that the oldest African American Baptist church (1875) in the city thrives as well as it did when the Rev.

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