Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . famousarchitect, Charles Bulfinch, of Boston, and a bellpurchased from Paul Revere in 1802. The loss of thisvenerable landmark by fire on a winter night, 1878,filled the entire community with sorrow. The ac-companying illustration is from a water-color sketchmade by Miss Olive G. Hartwell of Boston. It is probable that the builders of such houses ofworship as the First Church of Christ in Springfield,erected in 1819, had in mind certain meeting housesin the eastern part of the state. Certainly the spire ofthe Old South Church of Boston h
Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . famousarchitect, Charles Bulfinch, of Boston, and a bellpurchased from Paul Revere in 1802. The loss of thisvenerable landmark by fire on a winter night, 1878,filled the entire community with sorrow. The ac-companying illustration is from a water-color sketchmade by Miss Olive G. Hartwell of Boston. It is probable that the builders of such houses ofworship as the First Church of Christ in Springfield,erected in 1819, had in mind certain meeting housesin the eastern part of the state. Certainly the spire ofthe Old South Church of Boston had an importantinfluence upon the designs used by the builders ofsome of the beautiful spires of the Connecticut valleytowns in the first decades of the last century. It isprobable that the spire of the church in Hadley, Massa-chusetts, was patterned after that of the Old NorthChurch, Boston. It is interesting to note that at first the people ofNew England did not attach the sanctity to the houseof worship that is characteristic of the present gener-ic. OLD SOITII CHI Ui II, II , MAINK. KKKCIKD 17!):
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