Baptist Church from Church Street.

ID: 725 ~ Source: Courtesy of the North Adams Historical Society.
This file appears in: First Baptist Church
Baptist Church from Church Street.

A view of the church in the 1950s.

This file appears in: First Baptist Church

By Brandon Butler
The First Baptist Church is among the oldest in North Adams. Although its tall steeples stand over the city, it was once only a small meeting house on the corner of Church and Main St. In 1782 a group of Baptist practitioners from Connecticut came…