Bedford Baptist Church

Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“Bedford Baptist Church is a historic church built in a Gothic Revival style. The church currently serves as a community building for the city.”
Wikipedia article Bedford Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1893 · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 750 Broadway Ave., Bedford, 44146
When was it listed? 2002-12-27
Category. building
When was it built? 1893
National Register reference number. 02001618 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Named in the fire insurance atlases

Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in one, read straight off the scanned sheet.

First Baptist Church
Church
Named in 1898

From the nomination file

5,586 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

Areas of Significance -A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period,or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant 1893 - 1952 lack individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person XA owned by a religious institution or used for religious (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery.
- E a reconstructed building, object,or structure. - F a commemorative property. Snyder, Jacob; architect within the past 50 years. Wheeler, C.H.; builder Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 5,586 words, 41 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 02001618, 41 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001618 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 75 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.