You might try the Phelps-Stokes Fellowship papers at UVA. You might also search for the business records of King's Lumber Company. UVA or LVA would be good choices for that type of record if they were donated.

Suzanne Collins Matson

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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Charlottesville Black Baptist Churches

Dear all,

I am looking for a way to  dig out construction plans, pictures of or any information about the rise and demise of the Bethel Baptist Institutional Church on Commerce St, Charlottesville that was erected in 1921 by Rev C.W. 
T Barnes  A.B. Pastor (says the plate on the building).  I have exhausted all normal avenues  o we need to get creative. I have information and pictures from the 50's on but I would like to get back to its origins. The church could not pay the loan to King's Lumber Co (Charlottesville) during the depression so, apparently, the church disbanded and I cannot find anything.  I found the name of the Pastor around 1928 in the  Baptist Church Conferences in the Winston-Salem NC area but, not much at all.

I would appreciate any hints as to where else to look for this kind of information.

Many thanks!

Liana Arias
"History aficionada" who bought the church to repurpose for something else.

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