. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . ame as the result of a separation fromthe Tabernacle Church in 1774 under the leadershipof Colonel Timothy Pickering. Until the edifice waserected, the new society occupied an assembly hallthat stood on adjoining land, and in which manynotable functions were held before the Revolution,among them a reception tendered to Governor Gageon the last Kings Birthday celebrated in Massachu-setts. When completed, the church was consideredone of Mclntires greatest works. Its dimensionswere sixty-six by eighty feet with a graceful spireafter
. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . ame as the result of a separation fromthe Tabernacle Church in 1774 under the leadershipof Colonel Timothy Pickering. Until the edifice waserected, the new society occupied an assembly hallthat stood on adjoining land, and in which manynotable functions were held before the Revolution,among them a reception tendered to Governor Gageon the last Kings Birthday celebrated in Massachu-setts. When completed, the church was consideredone of Mclntires greatest works. Its dimensionswere sixty-six by eighty feet with a graceful spireafter the Wren manner one hundred sixty-six feethigh, and together with the land it cost ^23, following description of it by James Gallier, anarchitect, occurs in the North American Review forOctober, 1836: One of the best proportioned steeples in ourcountry is at Salem, in Massachusetts; the work ofa native artist. The whole church is the best speci-men of architecture in that city, notwithstandingthe various efforts which have been made since its [ 142]. Plate CXXIL—The Old South Church, Salem, erected in 1804.
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