{"nrhp_refnum":"99000413","name":"Mother Easter Baptist Church and Parsonage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Second Ave., NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Moultrie","county":"Colquitt County","state":"GA","lat":31.18200100400003,"lon":-83.79369056299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-04-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small brick African-American church built in 1906 and an adjacent 1941 brick parsonage on a corner lot at 400 Second Avenue NW in Moultrie, Colquitt County, Georgia.","why_significant":"The church is an intact and unusually elaborate High Victorian Eclectic design for a small South Georgia town, with Queen Anne, Romanesque and Gothic influences. It was home to the first Baptist congregation serving Moultrie's African-American community and was the center of religious and social life for its neighborhood. The parsonage is a good example of a front-gabled bungalow and part of a common church-parsonage complex type.","narrative":"Mother Easter Baptist Church and its parsonage sit on a corner lot in a traditional African-American neighborhood northwest of downtown Moultrie. The brick church, completed in 1906, combines Queen Anne, Romanesque and Gothic details, including three colors of brick, a castellated corner bell tower, stained-glass windows and a Greek-cross plan. Inside, curved wooden pews built in 1928 by local carpenter W.D. Thomas face the pulpit. The 1941 parsonage to the west is a plain front-gabled brick bungalow. The congregation formed in 1894 and was the first Baptist group serving Moultrie's African-American community. Two earlier church buildings burned, in 1903 and 1905, before members raised funds to build the present church, which is described as the oldest church building in Moultrie. The congregation moved to a larger building in 1987, and the old church is called Old Mother Easter. The property was listed for its architecture, its role in African-American and religious history, and its elaborate design, which is unusual for a small Georgia town.","period_of_significance":"1906-1941","architect_builder":"W.D. Thomas, carpenter of pews","architectural_style":"High Victorian Eclectic (church); Bungalow (parsonage)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function listed as vacant; services were held in the building until 1987, when the congregation moved to a new church one mile west.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.378102-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/99000413.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000413/a4563d9654-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000413/a4563d9654-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother_Easter_Baptist_Church.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother_Easter_Baptist_Church.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207638","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Easter_Baptist_Church_and_Parsonage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16895416"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/colquitt-county/mother-easter-baptist-church-and-parsonage-99000413/"}