First Parish Unitarian Church

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First Parish Unitarian Church
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Location Medfield, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°11′14″N71°18′25″W / 42.18722°N 71.30694°W / 42.18722; -71.30694 Coordinates: 42°11′14″N71°18′25″W / 42.18722°N 71.30694°W / 42.18722; -71.30694
Built1789
ArchitectBacon, Captain Joseph
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No. 74000376 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 18, 1974

The First Parish Unitarian Church, now the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Medfield, is a historic church on North Street in Medfield, Massachusetts. The white clapboarded church was built in 1789, as the third for a congregation established c. 1652. In 1839 it was rotated on its site ninety degrees. It lost its steeple in the New England Hurricane of 1938. [2] The steeple was replaced in 1988, and the building's many layers of paint were stripped off in 2007. [3]

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The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [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 First Parish Unitarian Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-30.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. "History of the Meeting House". First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford. Retrieved 2015-09-09.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)