First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist

Baptist

Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

 church at 813 Market Street in Parkersburg

Parkersburg, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 33,099 people, 14,467 households, and 8,767 families residing in the city. In 2006 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Parkersburg's population had decreased 4.4% to 31,755. The population density was 2,800.5 people per square mile . There were 16,100 housing...

, Wood County, West Virginia

Wood County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 87,986 people, 36,275 households, and 24,884 families residing in the county. The population density was 240 people per square mile . There were 39,785 housing units at an average density of 108 per square mile...

. It was built in 1871, and is a two-story, three by six bay, brick church in the Italianate

Italianate architecture

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 style. It has a central steeple

Steeple

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 on the front facade and several rear additions. It is topped by a gable roof trimmed by an arched corbel table and corner turret.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1982.