First Baptist Church
- Also Known As: Brattle Square Church
- Address: 100 - 110 Commonwealth Ave
- Vicinity: 240 Clarendon St
- Neighborhood of Back Bay Boston in Boston
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1698/01/10 | Thomas Brattle conveys land (now Brattle Street, near Boston City Hall's main entrance) for a Congregational meeting-house. An unpainted, wooden church (lost) will be built in 1699. | |||||
| 1759/12/31 | Henry Quincy | Groom | Eunice Newell, daughter of Andrew Newell and Eunice Coffin Newell, marries Henry Quincy at Brattle Church (lost) in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay. | |||
| 1759/12/31 | Eunice Newell Quincy | Bride | Eunice Newell, daughter of Andrew and Eunice Newell of Charlestown, marries Henry Quincy at Brattle Church (lost), Boston. | |||
| 1772/00/00 | Thomas Dawes | Architect | The wooden Brattle Street meetinghouse is replaced with a brick church (lost) designed by Thomas Dawes. | |||
| 1772/00/00 | John Hancock | Faith | John Hancock donates "a thousand pounds and a bell" for the new brick Brattle Street Church (lost). | |||
| 1824/08/29 | John G Palfrey | Vocation | In Boston, Rev John J Palfrey leads Sunday service at the Brattle Street Meeting House (lost) where the Marquis de Lafayette sits in John Hancock's former pew. | Lafayette's Triumphal Tour of America | ||
| 1863/09/30 | Samuel Henry Gookin | Owner | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts sells three lots on Commonwealth at auction to investor Samuel Henry Gookin. Gookin does not take title for the land. | |||
| 1863/09/30 | James Lovell Little Sr | Owner | James Lovell Little buys a 28 foot lot on Commonwealth Avenue at a Commonwealth of Massachusetts auction. Little didn't take title to the parcel. | |||
| 1870/07/00 | Henry H Richardson | Architect | Brattle Square Unitarian Church hold a design competition for a new building to be erected in the new Back Bay neighborhood. Henry H Richardson will win the commission to design the new church. | |||
| 1872/00/00 | The brick church on Brattle Street is demolished. The Brattle Street congregation will move to a new stone church building on Commonwealth Avenue. | |||||
| 1874/00/00 | Italian craftsmen finish carving Frederic Bartholdi's friezes in place at the top of the tower. An Angle of Judgment with a golden trumpet is installed at each corner. | |||||
| 1876/00/00 | Frederic Auguste Bartholdi | Sculptor | Frederic Bartholdi models four colossal frieze depicting baptism, communion, marriage and death. The figure in the baptismal frieze is Charles Sumner, the communion includes Henry Longfellow, Ralph W Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. | |||
| 1902/10/26 | Edward Everett Hale | Life | An article in The Boston Post quotes a letter from Frederic Bartholdi to Edward Everett Hale saying that the marriage frieze sculpture is modeled on Abrahem Lincoln and Giuseppe Garibaldi. |
| Particulars for First Baptist Church: | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Area of Significance | Art |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Level of Significance | National |
| Owner | Private |
| Historic Use | Religious Property |
| Architectural Style | Richardsonian Romanesque |
| Architectural Style | Romanesque Revival |
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