The past and the present . eets, was dedicated inJanuary, 1822. Its steeple was blown downin a gale, but has been rebuilt with addi-tional beauty. Since the erection of thishouse the Methodists have greatly increasedin the city. The First Universalist Church.—John Mur-ray, Elkanan Winchester, Adam Streeter,Richard Carrique and others introduced intoProvidence the views and worship of thissociety. Meetings were held in the OldTown House till 1821, when the society wasorganized. Their first meeting-house, a finestructure of stone, at the corner of West-minster and Union streets, was erected in18
The past and the present . eets, was dedicated inJanuary, 1822. Its steeple was blown downin a gale, but has been rebuilt with addi-tional beauty. Since the erection of thishouse the Methodists have greatly increasedin the city. The First Universalist Church.—John Mur-ray, Elkanan Winchester, Adam Streeter,Richard Carrique and others introduced intoProvidence the views and worship of thissociety. Meetings were held in the OldTown House till 1821, when the society wasorganized. Their first meeting-house, a finestructure of stone, at the corner of West-minster and Union streets, was erected in1821 at a cost of more than $20,000, but wasdestroyed by fire May 24, 1825. Another house was immediately erected at an expenseof more than $24,000, but was finally soldfor secular uses in 1870. Their present ampleand elegant house, on the corner of Wash-ington and Greene streets was completed in1872. The cost of land and edifice was$130,000. Grace Church.— Grace Church parish wasorganized in 1829, and the first meetings. Hotel Dorrance, corner Westminster and Fulton Streets. were held in the old tin top edifice on thecorner of Pine and Richmond streets. Thefirst ministers were Samuel Fuller, Jr., Hawkins, John A. Clark and AlexanderH. Vinton. In 1832 they purchased the oldtheatre on the corner of Westminster andMathewson streets, and removing it erectedtheir first church edifice of wood in Gothicstyle. The second edifice — the present, free-stone, Gothic house —with lofty tower, wasconsecrated in 1846. The cost of land andbuilding was about $100,000. The chime ofsixteen bells was put into the tower in 1861. The Union Congregational Church.—Thisorganization, which in a sense dates back to1758, leading through the lines of five or-ganizations, yet preserving an orthodoxthread, was at last brought into its presentform by a union of the Richmond street and 38 NARRAGANSETT SEA AND SHORE. High street Congregational churches, theunion being definitively accomplished Ma
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