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EXTERIOR, NORTH AND REAR ELEVATIONS - South Elyton Baptist Church, 102 First Street, South, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
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Lowe, Jet

Related names:

Rayfield, Wallace A
Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter
Birmingham Historical Society, contractor
Dennis, Christopher, field team
Howell, Brenda, field team
Jones, Bill, field team
Slaughter, Carol, field team
Hamilton, Amy, field team
Anderson, Richard K, delineator
White, Marjorie L, historian
Title
EXTERIOR, NORTH AND REAR ELEVATIONS - South Elyton Baptist Church, 102 First Street, South, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Depicted place Alabama; Jefferson County; Birmingham
Date 1995
date QS:P571,+1995-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS ALA,37-BIRM,34-2
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Established in 1914, the South Elyton Baptist Church located in Titusvulle, a growing and densely populated residential community south of Elyton, the county seat of Jefferson County from 1819 until the founding of Birmingham in the 1870s. Titusville extends from tracks to tracks, from Southside to Mason City and Elyton to Green Springs and the red ore mines along Red Mountain. South Elyton Baptist Church chose a site along First Street, a major thoroughfare, on Lots 1 & 2 in Block 1 of the Session Land Company's subdivision of the Walker Land Co.'s Addition to Birmingham. Construction for the historic sanctuary began in the late 1920s when church member Mr. Walton, his mule and scaper began excavation of the basement. Prominent African-American architect Wallace A. Rayfield provided the plans. His residence, a social hub of the community, faced the site across First Street. Rayfield's plans guided these do-it-yourself church members, children of the founders who built the church from 1940 to 1947. Home-cooked dinners and several mortgages financed this construction. The church incorporated in April 1958. During the 1960s, it hosted meetings of the Birmingham-based civil rights organization, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Since completion of the wonderfully compatible "walk-in" addition in 1989, the historic sanctuary continues serving as an educational facility for the church and a community center hosting meetings for the neighborhood, scouts, and civic and voter leagues. Church leaders, described by their descendants who remain church members, were "general doers" who worked "big jobs" and sometimes two jobs daily. These jobs were with "TC and I, the railroads and the mines." Alpha Portland Cement in nearby Powderly was another employer. Many bricklayers and carpenters also belonged to the congregation. Women leaders taught school.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N785
  • Survey number: HABS AL-983
  • Building/structure dates: 1940-1947 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1989 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/al1214.photos.321224p
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Object location33° 31′ 14.02″ N, 86° 48′ 09″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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