In 1839 First Baptist Church organized and held its first service in the home of John M. Eldridge on Brady Street.

Services were held there until the congregation built a brick structure at the corner of Fourth and Brady Streets on a lot donated by Antoine LeClaire.

The congregation met there until they moved into a new building on the corner of Sixth and Main Streets.

[3] The Second Baptist congregation purchased a house on the northwest corner of Fourth and Perry Streets and held services there.

A short time later they moved to Third and Brady Streets into a place called the Medical College.

He stayed for five years, and toward the end of his pastorate, they built a church building at the corner of Fourth and Perry Streets.

It combines late Victorian polychrome surface areas with a shingle-style roofline treatment.

The sanctuary is nearly square in plan and features a very high hipped roof with blind dormers, corner pavilions, and a three-stage tower.

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