The Original Congregational Church of Wrentham is a historic church in Wrentham, Massachusetts. The present church is a Greek Revival structure built in 1834 for a congregation (Wrentham's first) formed in 1692. The church, which occupies a prominent position in the center of Wrentham, has a four-stage tower (rebuilt after the New England Hurricane of 1938), and a tetrastyle Doric portico. The building underwent a modernizing renovation in 1878, at which time many of the windows were modified to have rounded tops; many of these changes were reversed during renovations in the 1950s.[2]
The church building was listed the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.[1]
The early church records burned in the house of its first minister, Samuel Man, on October 26, 1699.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Original Congregational Church of Wrentham". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
- ^ Sibley, John Langdon (1881). Sibley's Harvard Graduates: Biographical Sketches of Those who Attended Harvard College ... with Bibliographical and Other Notes. 1659-1677. Massachusetts Historical Society. pp. 191–193. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
External links
Media related to Original Congregational Church of Wrentham at Wikimedia Commons
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