Property Record
257 KENDALL ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | BETHEL BAPITST CHURCH |
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| Other Name: | GRACE CHURCH |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 221184 |
| Location (Address): | 257 KENDALL ST |
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| County: | Racine |
| City: | Burlington |
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| Year Built: | 1956 |
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| Survey Date: | 2011 |
| Historic Use: | house of worship |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | N |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | After the formation of Plymouth Church in 1858, a Baptist congregation did not gather in Burlington until 1955, when Bethel Baptist Church was organized. That year meetings began being held in a tent on Pine Street, then above a paint store on Milwaukee Avenue. Later that year, the congregation purchased a house on Pine Street to serve as a temporary church and parsonage. In 1956, land on Kendall Street was donated to the congregation on which a church was constructed at the cost of $14,000. Two years later, a house on the corner of Kendall and Amanda Streets was also donated to the church to be used as a parsonage. Bethel Baptist was active at this location through 1980s. Today the church is occupied by Grace Church. |
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| Bibliographic References: | General Files. On file at the Burlington Historical Society, Burlington, Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |