All Souls Church (Braintree, Massachusetts)

All Souls Church

All Souls Church in 2010
Location 196 Elm Street, Braintree, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°13′23″N 71°0′2″W / 42.22306°N 71.00056°W / 42.22306; -71.00056Coordinates: 42°13′23″N 71°0′2″W / 42.22306°N 71.00056°W / 42.22306; -71.00056
Built 1904
Architect Lewis, Edwin J.
Architectural style English Revival
NRHP Reference # 15000389[1]
Added to NRHP July 7, 2015

The All Souls Church, also known as the First Unitarian Universalist Church, is a historic church at 196 Elm Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. It is a large fieldstone structure, in a cruciform plan with a square tower that has a crenellated top. The gable ends are decorated with bargeboard, and the entrance is set under a gabled entry porch below a large window with Gothic tracery. The church was designed by Boston architect Edwin Lewis and built in 1905 for a congregation organized in 1900; it is Braintree's first stone church building. Land for the building was donated by George O. Wales, a leading force in uniting Braintree's Unitarian and Universalist congregations. (The larger national church organizations did not formally merge until 1961.)[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[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 All Souls Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-07-17.

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