Tupper Memorial Baptist Church

In 1866, Dr. Henry Martin Tupper established the church as Second Baptist Church, serving Raleigh's African-American community.^[1] The church offered Christian education for adults, teenagers, and children as well as theology lessons for preachers.^[1] The church's Christian education eventually formed into Shaw University.^[1]

In 1912, a new Gothic Revival church was built.^[1] In 1940, the church was renamed Tupper Memorial, in honor of Dr. Tupper.^[1] In 1957, a brick veneer was added to the church and new windows and buttresses were added as well.^[1] More renovations were made in 1976.^[2]

In 1990, the United States Department of the Interior designated the church as a historic property and added it to the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Raleigh-South Park Historic District.^[3]