All Souls Church (Braintree, Massachusetts)

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All Souls Church
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All Souls Church in 2010
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Location196 Elm Street, Braintree, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°13′23″N71°0′2″W / 42.22306°N 71.00056°W / 42.22306; -71.00056
Built1904
Architect Edwin J. Lewis Jr.
Architectural styleEnglish Revival
NRHP reference No. 15000389 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 7, 2015

All Souls Church, also known as All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Braintree, is a church on the National Register of Historic Places, it is located at 196 Elm Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. The building is a large fieldstone structure, in a cruciform plan with a square tower that has a crenellated top. The gable ends are decorated with bargeboard, and the entrance is set under a gabled entry porch below a large window with Gothic tracery. The church was designed by Boston architect Edwin J. Lewis Jr. and built in 1905 for a congregation organized in 1900; it is Braintree's first stone church building. Land for the building was donated by George O. Wales, a leading force in uniting Braintree's Unitarian and Universalist congregations. [2]

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The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for All Souls Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-07-17.