title: First Baptist Church (Norfolk, Virginia)
text: # First Baptist Church (Norfolk, Virginia)
  
  First Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located in Norfolk, Virginia. It was designed by architect R. H. Hunt and dedicated in 1906. It is a Romanesque Revival-style church with a richly ornamented facade of rough-faced, pink granite ashlar and limestone trim. It features a tall, eight-level corner tower with a multiplicity of window types and a shorter flanking tower at the opposite corner. Construction began in 1904.
  
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
  
  