First Free Will Baptist Church and Vestry
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| Location | 57 Main St., Ashland, New Hampshire |
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| Coordinates | 43°41′42″N 71°37′59″W / 43.69500°N 71.63306°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1834 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 83001140[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 8, 1983 |
The First Free Will Baptist Church (also known Miss Perkins' High School and Holderness Academy) are a historic Free Will Baptist Church complex in Ashland, New Hampshire. The complex consists of three buildings: the brick church building, which was built in 1834; the old vestry, a brick building standing near the street which was built c. 1835 as a school and converted to a vestry in 1878; and the new vestry, a wooden structure added in 1899 to join the two brick buildings together. The church, a fine vernacular Federal style building when it was built, had its interior extensively restyled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2] The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983,[1] primarily as a good example of modest Victorian church architecture. It now houses the Ashland Community Church.
