First Baptist Church of Gilmanton

The building has wide corner pilasters, and an elaborate cornice with mouldings, frieze, and architrave on three sides.

On the property stand a series of horsesheds, a long single-story frame structure built partially on a stone foundation; these date to the 1880s.

It has undergone only relatively modest alterations, including the introduction of electricity in the 1940s, and the louvering of the belfry, after a bell was installed in it (some sixty years after the building's construction).

[2] Belknap County has twelve surviving churches that were built during the Greek Revival period of the mid-19th century.

This church is one of the finest of these survivors, and is accompanied by a horseshed row of unparalleled quality in the county.