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Second Baptist Church
816 Third Street, NW
Second Baptist Church was organized in 1848 by seven members of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Under the leadership of the Reverend Sandy Alexander -- eventually one of the country's best-known black Baptist ministers -- the church purchased this site in 1856 for its first permanent building. According to oral tradition, the building was a stop on the Underground Railroad. The church ran a children's day school after the Civil War and later established a Sunday School Lyceum, attracting such nationally prominent speakers as Frederick Douglass and Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
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The present Gothic Revival church (1894) was designed by white architect
Appleton P Clark, Jr.
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