{"nrhp_refnum":"99000883","name":"Saint James Second Street Baptist Church","other_names":["Greater Saint James Missionary Baptist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"210 Harding St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.75947316600008,"lon":-97.32473577299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Late Gothic Revival brick church at 210 Harding Street in Fort Worth, Texas, in the historic African American neighborhood known as \"The Hill.\" The southern wing was built 1913-1918 and the northern wing around 1922.","why_significant":"The church is significant under Criterion C as an early 20th-century Late Gothic Revival church designed for an African American congregation. It is also one of the few Fort Worth buildings documented as built by an African American contractor, George R. Powell. It was designed by local architect Frank J. Singleton and meets Criterion Consideration A for religious properties at the local level.","narrative":"Saint James Second Street Baptist Church, now Greater Saint James Missionary Baptist Church, sits on a small hill at Harding and Second streets in Fort Worth's historic African American neighborhood known as \"The Hill.\" Built of red polychrome striated brick, it has two front-gabled wings, each flanked by towers, with lancet art glass windows and a round glass window in each gable. Local architect Frank J. Singleton designed both wings. African American contractor George R. Powell built the sanctuary under a 1918 contract, and B.G. Rhodes built the north education annex around 1922. The congregation formed in 1895 and grew into one of the city's most prominent Black churches, hosting large civic, state and national gatherings. The exterior is largely unaltered, though the sanctuary interior was remodeled in the 1950s. The building is valued as an example of Late Gothic Revival design and as a rare documented work by an African American builder in Fort Worth.","period_of_significance":"1913, 1918, ca. 1922","architect_builder":"Singleton, Frank J. (architect); Powell, George R. (builder); Rhodes, B.G. (builder)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in religious use as Greater Saint James Missionary Baptist Church; in generally good condition, with some water damage to interior walls.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.627174-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/9734/40973411/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/99000883.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000883/57bab32b08-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000883/57bab32b08-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Churchfortworth2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:Churchfortworth2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973411","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_James_Second_Street_Baptist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7401409"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/saint-james-second-street-baptist-church-99000883/"}