| Object ID |
9999.6.6 |
| Description |
Engraving of the Old Brick, Boston, Mass. Built 1712.
The steeple of the Congregational Church of Amherst, NH, closely resembles that of this church. This image was taken from "Meetinghouse and Church in Early New England," by Edmund W. Sinnott, 1963, p. 36. Sinnott echoes Eva Speare's comparison of the meetinghouse in Amherst, NH, to the meetinghouse in Brooklyn, CT. Of the latter, he says, "...the Brooklyn steeple is so like that of the Old Brick of Boston as to suggest it was a direct copy." (See object 9999.6.5 for an image of the Old Meetinghouse, Brooklyn, CT.)
Of the Amherst meetinghouse, Sinnott wrote, "The church at Amherst, New Hampshire, built in 1771, is said to have the oldest steeple in the state. It resembles the one on the meetinghouse at Brooklyn, Connecticut, put up the year before. The house, a typical structure, was built on the town's training field (now the common). The town sold it to the First Congregational Society in 1833, retaining title to the bell, clock, belfry, and tower. It still owns the clock. In 1836 the meetinghouse was moved across the road to its present site and remodeled. The door on the long side was closed, the front built out around the base of the tower, and the whole building raised so that a room could be added underneath. It was altered again in 1872." |
| Date of photo |
1712-1712 |
| Source |
William Veillette |
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