The church above, which once stood on Columbia Road, was built with funds donated by Sarah Baker, who operated a band-box business in the Savin Hill neighborhood for over forty years. She was able to save and invest $5,000 of the earnings from her business and stipulated in her will that after twenty years the accumulated funds be given to her church to build a new house of worship. The structure was to be located within three-quarters of a mile of her home. With proceeds from the sale of the property of the disbanded Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church in Roxbury added to Baker’s estate as well as additional funds, a new church was constructed on the corner of Columbia Road and Cushing Avenue. It was called Baker Memorial Church in Sarah’s honor. The church closed in 1943, and the building was demolished.
