National Historic Landmark - 1st Unitarian Soc. Meeting House

An internationally recognized premier example of Frank Lloyd Wright's late Usonian architecture, unusual for its nonresidential application. Usonian design refers to what Wright termed as an artistic house of low cost for an average citizen of the United States. Considered ...

First Meetinghouse in Hopkinton

Near this spot stood

the first

Meetinghouse

in Hopkinton

Built in Removed in

1724 1830

Marker is on Main Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Presbyterian Meeting House

Near this memorial stood the Presbyterian Meeting House, first place of worship in Camden after that of the Quakers. It was built about 1774 on land given by Col. Joseph Kershaw and confirmed in his Will dated 1778. The first ...

Dorminy's Meeting House Young's Meeting House Brushy Creek

Dorminy`s Meeting House was constituted December 17, 1831, on a site 1 mile Northwest of Irwinville, near the home of John B. Dorminy, Sr. The Church was of the

Primitive Baptist faith, and the elders constituting it were the Rev. J. ...

Meetinghouse Hill

1630 - 1930

Site of chapel erected in 1653 for John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians. Here he preached to the Wamesit and Pennacook Indians, converting many and establishing a village of Christian Indians called Wamesit.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Site of Early Meeting House

1630 - 1930

The original meetinghouse of the First Church in Newton was built in this burying ground in 1660. The first pastor was John Eliot, Jr., son of the Apostle to the Indians.

Marker is on Center Street just from Cotton ...

Indian Meeting House

1630 - 1930

On this site John Eliot helped his Indian converts to build their first meetinghouse in 1651, with a "prophet's chamber" where he lodged on his fortnightly visits to preach to them in their language. His disciple Daniel Takawambait ...

First Meeting House

1630 - 1930

Here stood Mendon's first meetinghouse, built in 1668 and destroyed by Indians in 1676. Joseph Emerson, the minister, was an ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Hastings Street (Massachusetts Route 16), ...

Salem Village Meeting House

1672

Directly across from this site was located the original Salem Village Meeting House where civil and military meetings were held, and ministers including George Burroughs, Deodat Lawson, and Samuel Parris preached.

The infamous 1692 witchcraft hysteria began in this neighborhood. On ...

Great Friends Meeting House

In 1639, Helen and Nicholas Easton, John Clarke, William Coddington and others left Portsmouth, the settlement founded in 1638 by Anne Hutchinson and others on the northern end of Aquidneck Island. They came south and founded Newport. Newport’s European settlers ...