First Baptist Church Buy Property on East Main - Present Residence of Miss Mary Douglass
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RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 1 10/19/05 - 11/30/05 hours 52 pages 88 lines 5,158 SUBJECT TEXT DATE First Baptist Church Buy property on East Main - present residence of Miss Mary Douglass. Property 5 rods by 18 rods - price $4,500. 12-11-1883 Description of proposed church. 7-2-1888 Plan for Gothic building with square tower - to seat 470. Estimated cost $20 - $25,000. 11-12-1888 To accept plans of Pierce & Dockstadter of Elmira. "No longer appears to be in doubt." 12-12-1888 History of in Progressive Batavian. 1-4-1889 Sketch of proposed building. 4-2-1889 Congregation votes to build. 4-10-1889 House on lot to be sold at auction. 4-16-1889 To sign contract with J. Connelly & Co. today. 4-18-1889 Carpenter buying house on the lot. 4-19-1889 New owner to move house to Pringle Street. 4-24-1889 List of donors to building fund. 4-25-1889 Correction of list of donors. 4-26-1889 Contractor wants out of contract. 4-30-1889 Contractor wants out of contract. 5-30-1889 Annie M. Gamble, organist. 7-8-1889 Morris and Strobel of LeRoy to trim stone. 1-14-1890 Bondsman takes on job when contractor withdrew - George. 2-28-1890 Bondsman hires John Schafer for masonry, Dellinger & Glade for carpentry. Work rushed. 3-3-1890 Cable on derrick breaks - derrick topples. 5-19-1890 Derrick righted - no damage. 5-20-1890 Corner stone ceremony on Tuesday - outline of program. 6-12-1980 Tallman has photo of Children's Day. 6-16-1890 Report on corner stone laying. 6-18-1890 Chips from stones being shaped for church used to fill holes in road. 11-3-1890 Given money by children. 1-7-1891 Children donate to building fund. 1-9-1891 Hold Kirmess in Open House. 4-9-1891 ¶ on windows and seats for new church. Progressive Batavian. 4-10-1891 Pipe now running up through tower of unfinished church revealed as smoke stack - answer to many queries. 4-18-1891 Vandals smear paint on pulpit steps. 4-21-1891 Partridge flew through window in new church. 5-9-1891 Pipe organ to small - sold to Alpina, MI. 7-9-1891 Two large colored glass windows paid for - $800 - by YPSCE - now all paid up. Also to pay for gas and electrical chandeliers - at $200. 7-31-1891 Not yet completed. 8-26-1891 Now tired of waiting for stone for walks. The Rev. Johnson has cement walks put in. Weaver, a parishioner, was in cement business. 9-7-1891 Dedication Thursday the 22nd. 10-13-1891 Dedication report - picture. 10-22-1891 Free from debt. 10-23-1891 Rental of seats begins. 10-29-1891 For Sale sign on Jackson Street building. 11-2-1891 New Odell organ purchased - $5,000 - Huntley on committee. 4-15-1892 New Odell organ purchased - $5,000 - Byron Huntley, on committee, goes to New York. Odell known for sweetness and purity of tone. Mr. Odell expected to be in Batavia to take measurements preparatory to setting up the instrument. 4-16-1892 Professor Herve D. Wilkins of Rochester in organ concert - Miss Kittie Tyrnell and C. C. Bradley soloists. 11-15-1892 Report of concert to show new organ. 11-26-1892 RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 2 SUBJECT TEXT DATE First Baptist Church (cont) Church free of debt. 11-28-1892 Horse broke away from sheds. 12-13-1892 Electric devise for lighting gas lights in use. 1-31-1894 John H. Mason begins pastorate. 1-3-1898 $12,000 pledged in 2 1/2 hours to reduce debt. 1-10-1898 Choir loft being enlarged by 2 feet - work by L. B. Stanley. 8-2-1898 Don't want sheds on Jackson Street rebuilt. 1-5-1899 Former church burns - still owned by Baptist Association - burned on the 18th. 3-20-1899 John Glade to demolish - bricks loose. 3-31-1899 Society to get $2,000 insurance on Jackson Street church - to be demolished. 4-4-1899 Frank Hampton to buy site on Jackson, to use bricks - Ag. Society buys pews. 4-6-1899 H. L. Lempert of Rochester interested in Jackson Street site for theatre. 4-15-1899 Burned church nearly down. 5-20-1899 Griswold offers 20' strip of land between his dwelling and church - west side of church - for $1,750. 5-26-1899 Sunday School rooms planned. 7-24-1901 To improve property, basement. 7-31-1901 Enlargement almost complete. 11-1-1901 Formal opening of new Sunday School rooms. 11-7-1901 New rooms dedicated. 11-9-1901 William E. Brainerd of Vermont discusses buying Jackson Street building. 1-24-1902 Congregation decides to purchase organ (Spring of 1901). Cost of $4,500 (organ and motor) along with new electrical chandeliers to be paid for by shares costing one cent a day for three years or $10.95 each. 11-22-1902 To reopen after redecoration. 11-21-1903 Novel Christmas gift distribution - by miniature ferries wheel, 14" in diameter, with 16 cars, like one at World's Fair. 12-26-1903 Call Rev. Paul Hayne. 12-31-1903 Trustees vote to buy lot on the east side of Ross Street from Judge Washburn for $1,525. 3-14 or 24-1904 Now lease Bradley house on Tracy Avenue for parsonage. 3-14-1904 Jackson Street site sold to John R. Teifert of Iroquois Hotel. Report of contract to build in annual report of June 1904. 6-17-1904 Rev. Paul Hayne moves to parsonage on Ross Street. 12-23-1904 To host missionary conference - picture. 10-25-1905 Form coalition agreement with Emmanuel Baptists. 7-12-1906 Judd Class and Triangle Class to tent in three large tents at Silver Lake. 8-14-1907 Start nursery for infants during church time. 2-27-1908 Observe 75th Anniversary. Some history. 7-6-1909 Pastor Hayne gives history of Church - picture. 7-8-1909 McQueen called as pastor at salary of $2,000 and use of Church parsonage as dwelling - Church records. 9-2-1910 Call McQueen. 9-6-1910 Start free seating. 10-10-1910 To move organ - move front of balcony forward. 2-13-1911 To rebuild chapel at cost or $5,000. 12-6-1911 Building cost rise to $6,000. 1-18-1912 Cost now probably $8,000. 2-6-1912 Will finish basement and attic. 4-29-1912 Chapel work completion celebrated - cost $8,500. 9-28-1912 Brass quartet to play from tower. 12-30-1912 Open Settlement House at 411 Ellicott Street. 1-23-1913 Rev. Mr. McQueen reviews his six years in Batavia. 10-2-1916 Association history read. 6-28-1917 Call George Warren. 9-22-1919 RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 3 SUBJECT TEXT DATE First Baptist Church (cont) Farral family give Baptists cottage at Silver Lake. [See: Farrall Cottage.] 7-10-1919 Burn mortgage. 10-25-1919 Close Farral Cottage for winter. 11-13-1919 Farral Cottage opened - caretaker chosen. 5-22-1920 Accept first constitution. 1-6-1921 Members of motor to Rochester to Lake Avenue Baptist to meet George Fisher who is to rebuild organ. 11-24-1924 History of the Church. 6-23-1924 Isadorus Stoll painting mural in front area, copy of famous painting. 9-10-1924 Install new heating plant. 9-26-1924 Church to reopen after two months of work - cost $10,000. 9-26-1924 To raise $20,000 to pay off indebtedness. 10-9-1924 Page of pictures - 90th Anniversary. 11-7-1924 To rebuild organ - inspect one like it in Rochester. 11-24-1924 Dr. & Mrs. Carr give bell in memory of their daughter Eva Maud. 12-20-1929 Bell to ring first on Christmas. 12-24-1929 Past & Present column: On first organ in Jackson Street building. 11-12-1932 Picture: Jackson Street ca. 1868 with church spine showing. 10-27-1934 New organ and chimes to be dedicated. 4-23-1938 Rev. Warren honored for 20 years. 11-4-1939 Rededicated, redecorated sanctuary. 12-21-1939 Sell parsonage at 28 Ross Street to Minor - $12,000. 5-3-1942 Rev. George Warren to retire. 3-30-1942 Call the Rev. Russell Moore as pastor. 11-16-1942 Dedicate chimes in tower - gift of Mr. & Mrs. Brownell. 5-7-1943 New amplification system blasts closing hymn to neighboring services by mistake. 7-19-1943 To burn mortgage - 111th Annual Meeting. 4-29-1947 Burn mortgage. 5-1-1947 Dedicate new seats. 5-29-1948 To provide home and jobs for two displaced families. 10-21-1948 Accept Camp Vick. 1-7-1949 Baptists and Presbyterians confer on joint parking lot. 9-14-1949 Reject combined parking. 9-15-1949 Sign deed selling parsonage at 28 Ross Street - plan to build. 5-3-1952 Open House at new parsonage, 227 East Avenue. 1-2-1953 Roger G. Reed of Ithaca says the Church was designed by Pierce and Dockstadter and built by Pierce & Bickford of Ithaca. Constable: History in Daily July 8, 1909. Church has a membership of 1,000. 5-3-1956 Picture: Jackson Street with what must be old First Baptist Church. 7-25-1957 Picture: Church on Jackson Street. 9-17-1957 Obit - Rev. Russell Moore - drowned in Erie Canal in Fairport. 12-2-1958 First couple married in the church celebrate their 65th Anniversary - Andrew Raynor, barber, of 305 Washington Avenue. 1-2-1960 To celebrate 70th Anniversary of the Church building. Picture: Rankin and Rev. Spencer planning birthday of the church building.