- Mount Vernon Church, Boston
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Mt. Vernon Church (built 1844), Ashburton Place, Boston, ca.1870s[1]
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]
Contents
History
Beacon Hill, 1844-1891
Portrait of minister Edward N. Kirk; from a photo by Masury & Silsbee, 19th c.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
Mt. Vernon Church, corner Beacon Street and Massachusetts Ave., Boston (built 1892)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
- ^ King's hand-book of Boston. 1889
- ^ Boston Directory. 1858
- ^ David Otis Mears. Life of Edward Norris Kirk. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks and company, 1877
- ^ Tribute to Rev. Samuel E. Herrick. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 18 (1903 - 1904)
- ^ Biographical history of Massachusetts: biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. Massachusetts biographical society, 1916.
- ^ Ann Eliza Bigelow Turner Safford. A memoir of Daniel Safford. Boston: American tract society, 1861
- ^ Heather D. Curtis. Visions of Self, Success, and Society among Young Men in Antebellum Boston. Church History, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Sep., 2004)
- ^ Tremont Temple burned; one of Boston's most famous buildings destroyed. New York Times, March 20, 1893
- ^ Charles Howard Walker (1857-1936)
- ^ http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?486946
- ^ 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)
- ^ http://www.14beacon.org/resources/efg/efg-bmvcc
- ^ Nancy Carlson Schrock. Images of New England: Documenting the Built Environment. American Archivist, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Fall, 1987)
Further reading
Portrait of Samuel E. Herrick, minister- The confession of faith and covenant of the Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston, Mass.; organized June 1, 1842. Boston: T.R. Marvin, 1852.
- Pauline Holmes, One Hundred Years of Mount Vernon Church, 1842-1942 (Boston, 1942)
- P. A. M. Taylor. A Beacon Hill Domestic: The Diary of Lorenza Stevens Berbineau. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 98 (1986), pp.90-115. Lorenza attended the church in the 1850s-1860s.
External links
- Google news archive. Articles about the church
- Congregational Library, Boston. Mount Vernon Congregational Church. Records, 1842-1970
- Historical Sketch (1844)
- http://www.flickr.com/groups/792521@N23/
- Flickr. Church Court condos, 2008
- Flickr. Church Court condos, 2010
- Flickr. Church Court condos, 2010
- Flickr. Church Court condos, 2010
Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1844
- Religious buildings completed in 1892
- 19th-century church buildings
- Former buildings and structures of Boston, Massachusetts
- 1842 establishments in the United States
- History of Boston, Massachusetts
- 19th century in Boston, Massachusetts
- Beacon Hill, Boston
- Back Bay, Boston
- Churches in Boston, Massachusetts
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