| Object ID |
9999.6.3 |
| Description |
Engraving of The Old South Church, Washington and Milk Streets, Boston, MA. Built 1729: Robert Twelves, architect.
The steeple of the Congregational Church of Amherst, NH, resembles that of this church. However, the meetinghouse in Brooklyn, CT, is a much closer match and was built only one year before Amherst's second meetinghouse. (See object 9999.6.5)
In Eva Speare's "Colonial Meeting-Houses of New Hampshire (p. 95), she states, "Naturally copies [of Old South Church] were erected; three can be seen today, built about 1770 at Farmington and Brooklyn, Connecticut and Amherst, New Hampshire. The latter is the oldest in the state and its builders were boys from Salem when the "Old South" was erected. On up the Merrimack Valley traveled this design as far as Campton where two examples are found." |
| Date of photo |
1729-1729 |
| Source |
William Veillette |
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