“February 1950

The members of the Fountain Memorial Baptist Church on R Street, SE, under the direction of Reverend Frank B. Burgess, voted to purchase an acre of land on Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast in Washington, DC at a cost of $30,500. The land was purchased with the intent of establishing a Baptist church on the property at the earliest date possible. In June 1950, it was recommended that the new church be referred to as The Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church. At the same time, a “Thirty-Thousand-Dollar Club” was established with the primary goal of paying the balance due on the property. The people had a mind to work, and the property was paid in full in less than two years!”

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