First Parish Unitarian Church

First Parish Unitarian Church
Location Medfield, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°11′14″N 71°18′25″W / 42.18722°N 71.30694°W / 42.18722; -71.30694Coordinates: 42°11′14″N 71°18′25″W / 42.18722°N 71.30694°W / 42.18722; -71.30694
Built 1789
Architect Bacon, Captain Joseph
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference #

74000376

[1]
Added to NRHP April 18, 1974

The First Parish Unitarian Church, now the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Medfield, is a historic church on North Street in Medfield, Massachusetts. The white clapboarded church was built in 1789, as the third for a congregation established c. 1652. In 1839 it was rotated on its site ninety degrees. It lost its steeple in the New England Hurricane of 1938.[2] The steeple was replaced in 1988, and the building's many layers of paint were stripped off in 2007.[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for First Parish Unitarian Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  3. ↑ "History of the Meeting House". First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford. Retrieved 2015-09-09.


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