Birdsey’s Plain Methodist Church
[ South side ]
Stepney
1839
Birdsey’s Plain
Methodist Church
(Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel)
This Greek Revival-style church, one of the “twin” churches on the Stepney Green, was built by Hanford Hull. This was the second Methodist Church in Monroe. In 1973, the church was closed and sold to the orthodox Roman Catholic movement where the traditional Latin Mass is celebrated.
Stepney Heritage Trail
[ North side ]
Stepney
1836
George Burritt House
(Methodist Church Parsonage)
Home of George Burritt, brother of Isaac Burritt who built a general store across the street north of the Baptist Church in the 1940’s, this house was sold & became the Stepney Methodist Church Parsonage. In 1973, the orthodox Roman Catholic movement bought it as a convent for the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel.
Stepney Heritage Trail
Marker is at the intersection of Pepper Street and Main Street (Connecticut Route 25), on the right when traveling north on Pepper Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
