Fire at the First Baptist Church at 8 Lafayette Street, Wakefield, Mass.
Item
- Title
- Fire at the First Baptist Church at 8 Lafayette Street, Wakefield, Mass.
- Description
- Photos show views of the First Baptist Church located at 8 Lafayette Street on the west side of the Upper Common at the corner of Common Street. Built around 1872, the high style Italianate building has a clapboard exterior and there is a large two story addition at the rear. On the evening of Tuesday, October 23, 2018, lightning struck the steeple during a storm and ignited a fire which soon engulfed the building. Despite the efforts of fire departments from many neighboring communities, the building was largely destroyed and declared a total loss.
- Detailed entry in building survey, "The cultural resources of Wakefield", pD126
- The church is part of the Common Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places
- Photos taken 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 23, 2018.
- Contributor
- Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
- Coverage
- Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
- 8 Lafayette Street (Wakefield, Mass.)
- Creator
- Klapes, Jeffrey M., 1964-
- Date
- 10-23-2018
- Format
- image/jpeg
- Publisher
- [Wakefield, Mass. : The author]
- Subject
- Church buildings
- First Baptist Church (Wakefield, Mass.)
- Type
- still image
- Photographs
- Original Format
- 8 photographs : digital, JPEG file, color
- Item sets
- Current Photographs of Wakefield
- Site pages
- Baptist Church Fire
