Black-and-white view of a brick Gothic Revival church with a stone-trimmed entry porch and tall pointed-arch windows, shaded by a large tree. A small truck sits at the left edge of the frame beside a neighboring frame house.
Red Oak, in southwest Iowa, grew up as a railroad town and is the seat of Montgomery County. The pointed-arch windows and stone trim follow the Gothic Revival vocabulary that Protestant congregations across the Midwest favored for churches raised in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Caption lettered in white on the negative, characteristic of real photo postcards. No white border; slight edge wear at corners.
No postmark. Real-photo postcard (RPPC) with L. L. Cook Co. imprint; pencil dealer/stock code "RMLJ 2-" written at top edge. Light foxing/toning on the blank back; no stamp, no address, no message.
Cite this card
First Baptist Church, Red Oak, IA, circa 1930, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/first-baptist-church-red-oak-ia-circa-1930. Accessed November 2, 2026.
