Mount Vernon Church, Boston

Mount Vernon Church (est.1842) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a Congregational church located on Beacon Hill (1844-1891) and later in Back Bay (1892-1977).[2]

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History

Beacon Hill, 1844-1891

Church pastors included Edward Norris Kirk (pastor 1842-1874);[3] and Samuel Edward Herrick (pastor 1871-1904).[4][5] Congregants included Dwight L. Moody and Daniel Safford.[6] In the 1850s some of the congregation formed the Mount Vernon Association of Young Men.[7]

In 1893 after the Tremont Temple burned down, its Baptist congregation held services in the Mt. Vernon Church building, recently vacated by the Mt. Vernon congregation.[8]

Back Bay, 1892-1977

Around 1892 C. Howard Walker designed the new church building[9][10] in the Back Bay, on the corner of Beacon Street and Massachusetts Avenue. It included stained glass windows made by John LaFarge.[11] Church pastors included Herrick (until 1904), and Carl Heath Kopf (pastor 1933-1948).[12]

A fire in 1978 destroyed the church building. In 1983 the remains were re-modelled by architect Graham Gund as the "Church Court Condominiums."[13]

References

  1. ^ King's hand-book of Boston. 1889
  2. ^ Boston Directory. 1858
  3. ^ David Otis Mears. Life of Edward Norris Kirk. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks and company, 1877
  4. ^ Tribute to Rev. Samuel E. Herrick. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 18 (1903 - 1904)
  5. ^ Biographical history of Massachusetts: biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. Massachusetts biographical society, 1916.
  6. ^ Ann Eliza Bigelow Turner Safford. A memoir of Daniel Safford. Boston: American tract society, 1861
  7. ^ Heather D. Curtis. Visions of Self, Success, and Society among Young Men in Antebellum Boston. Church History, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Sep., 2004)
  8. ^ Tremont Temple burned; one of Boston's most famous buildings destroyed. New York Times, March 20, 1893
  9. ^ Charles Howard Walker (1857-1936)
  10. ^ http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?486946
  11. ^ Julie L. Sloan and James L. Yarnall. Art of an Opaline Mind: The Stained Glass of John La Farge. American Art Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1/2 (1992)
  12. ^ http://www.14beacon.org/resources/efg/efg-bmvcc
  13. ^ Nancy Carlson Schrock. Images of New England: Documenting the Built Environment. American Archivist, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Fall, 1987)

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