Bethany Congregational Church (Quincy, Massachusetts)

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Bethany Congregational Church
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Location18 Spear St., Quincy, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°15′8″N71°0′4″W / 42.25222°N 71.00111°W / 42.25222; -71.00111
Area0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built1927
Architect J. Williams Beal, Sons
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
Website www.bethanycongchurch.org
MPS Quincy MRA
NRHP reference No. 89001374 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 20, 1989

Bethany Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church building at 18 Spear Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The Gothic Revival building was designed and built in 1927 to a design by J. Williams Beal, Sons, for a congregation which was established in 1832. [2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] Services are held every Sunday at 9:30 AM. All are welcome.

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Description and history

The Bethany Congregational Church is located at the northeast corner of Spear and Coddington Streets in downtown Quincy, just east of the Thomas Crane Public Library. It is a roughly T-shaped stone structure, with a tall square tower at the right (southern) corner of the T. The main facade, facing the street corner, has a projecting section in which the entrance is deeply recessed under an arch. An elaborate multipart stained glass window stands in the gable above this projecting section. The corners and side walls are buttressed, with three-part Gothic windows in the side walls. The tower is the building's most striking element, with three-part rectangular windows below a pinnacled parapet. [2]

The congregation was formed in 1832. Its second building, erected in 1870, was torn down in the 1920s to provide space for the Granite Trust Company building. That company gave the church this parcel of land, on which the church was built in 1927. It was designed by J. Williams Beal, Sons, architects responsible for the Trust Company building and the Adams Building. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 "NRHP nomination for Bethany Congregational Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-27.