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Harbor Church
Harbor Church, or the First Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church in the resort community of Block Island, which is located ten miles off the southern coast of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Harbor Church was organized on October 23, 1765, in what became the city of New Shoreham. Located at 21 Water Street, the church is a physical landmark visible along that section of the Atlantic coast.
In 1974, Harbor Church, along with other buildings in the Old Harbor Historic District in New Shoreham, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
==History==
Harbor Church is believed to have begun as early as 1662, when the first English settlers arrived at Block Island,〔 presumably in search of freedom of religion. These settlers met for services in individual homes. It was not until 1763 that the congregation was formally established. Four previous church buildings are no longer standing. The fourth building at the area known as Old Harbor had the first furnace on Block Island. With tourism, especially from May to October, important to the area, Harbor Church constructed a summer chapel with a pipe organ. This fourth church building, however, was later destroyed in a fire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Harbor Church )〕
The fifth former location of the church was on Chapel Street in Old Harbor. In addition to worship services, this building hosted such community events as school graduations. In October 1944, the church received as a gift the title to the Adrian Hotel,〔〔 a Victorian-style structure built in 1886. Two months later, the church on Chapel Street burned to the ground. The congregation had little funding available to rebuild in part because of devastating consequences from the Hurricane of 1938. The former hotel hence became unexpectedly the sixth home of Harbor Church, with services held in the former hotel dining room. After the sale of the parsonage to raise funds, the cornerstone was laid in 1952, and the current sanctuary was added to the reconstructed seventh and current church building. During the 1970s, a pastor's office was established within the church. The current parsonage was formed through the restoration of several former hotel rooms upstairs in the church building.〔
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