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First Baptist Church (East Thomas, Alabama)

church building in Alabama, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ5452351 ↗
Source-derived summary

First Baptist Church, East Thomas is a historic church at 419 11th Court West in Birmingham, Alabama. It was built in 1939 in a Gothic Revival style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Editorial summary

“First Baptist Church (East Thomas, Alabama)” enters the record as church building in Alabama, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what First, Baptist and Church can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around First, Baptist and Church.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“First Baptist Church (East Thomas, Alabama)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, First, Baptist and Church provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5452351. Authority coordinates are 33.522, -86.843. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1939 and 2005.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “First Baptist Church (East Thomas, Alabama)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow First Baptist Church (East Thomas, Alabama) primary sources, First Baptist Church (East Thomas, Alabama) archive and First research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “First Baptist Church (East Thomas, Alabama)”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “First Baptist Church (East Thomas, Alabama)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.