St. John the Baptist Church (Dorseyville, Louisiana)

	St. John Baptist Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	31925 Lacroix Rd., Dorseyville, Louisiana
Coordinates	30°10′36″N 91°9′39″W / 30.17667°N 91.16083°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1871
Website	sjbcdorseyville.wixsite.com/1868
NRHP reference No.	93001549
Added to NRHP	January 21, 1994

St. John the Baptist Church, or St. John Baptist Church, is a historic church at 31925 Lacroix Road in Dorseyville, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. It was constructed around 1871 to serve the local African American congregation.^[2]

Believed to be the oldest African-American church in the region, St. John Baptist was founded in 1868 by the Rev. Basile Dorsey, a black preacher and landowner after whom the village of Dorseyville was named.^[3]

The cornerstone was laid in 1869 and construction was completed around 1871. The church is a basilica church five bays deep, with a second story gallery on three sides of the interior. It is clapboarded with tall windows and mostly reflects the Greek Revival style of many rural churches of the era, though with a three-stage entrance tower at the center with Italianate details.^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ National Register Staff (November 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: St. John Baptist Church". National Park Service. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "St. John Baptist Church", IbervilleParish.com}publisher=Iberville Parish, retrieved March 30, 2024

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[93001549nom-2] National Register Staff (November 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: St. John Baptist Church". National Park Service. Retrieved January 31, 2024.

[ip-3] "St. John Baptist Church", IbervilleParish.com}publisher=Iberville Parish, retrieved March 30, 2024

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