First Baptist Church (West Main)

Built in 1883, this Victorian Romanesque brick church at 632 West Main has held an African American Baptist congregation with roots in Charlottesville reaching back to the 1860s. It sits on the edge of what was Vinegar Hill, the Black neighborhood demolished in urban renewal. The church survived — close enough to the demolition zone to have watched a community disappear, still active on the same block today. The National Register recognized it in 1982. The congregation is still there.