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- OWC_190810_05.JPG: "The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for [the] freedom "
-- JFK
- OWC_190810_07.JPG: "It is a serious thing, just to be alive on this fresh morning, in this broken world."
-- Mary Oliver
- OWC_190810_11.JPG: W.E.B. DuBois
Melnea Cass
Melnea Cass
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melnea Agnes Cass (née Jones; June 16, 1896 – December 16, 1978) was an American community and civil rights activist. She was deeply involved in many community projects and volunteer groups in the South End and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston and helped found the Boston local of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. She was active in the fight to desegregate Boston public schools, as a board member and as president of the Boston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As a young woman, Cass also assisted women with voter registration after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. She was affectionately known as the "First Lady of Roxbury."
- OWC_190810_13.JPG: Black Lives Matter
- OWC_190810_16.JPG: We Believe in the Separation of Church & Hate
- OWC_190810_21.JPG: Old West Church United Methodist
Old West Church
Worship Sunday at 11am
Black Lives Matter
We Renounce GC19 [Free Methodist Church General Conference 2019] & Stand with Our Queer Siblings
- OWC_190810_26.JPG: Stonewall 50
LGBTQ History Was Made in This Building.
See What it Was:
Historyproject.org/stonewall50
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Has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark
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Built in 1806
First building erected in 1737
Steeple torn down by the British to prevent signalling during the Siege of Boston 1776
- Wikipedia Description: Old West Church (Boston, Massachusetts)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Old West Church is a historic church at 131 Cambridge Street in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts. It was built in 1806 to designs by architect Asher Benjamin, and is considered one of his finest works. It is monumentally-scaled example of ecclesiastical Federal architecture, whose design was widely copied throughout New England.
Description and history
The first church on this site was built in 1737 as a wood-frame building, and was occupied as a barracks by British troops during their occupation of the city prior to the American Revolution. The British destroyed its tower in 1775 when they suspected that American Colonials were signaling to Cambridge from the spire.
In 1806 the congregation commissioned Asher Benjamin to design a new church building. As in the architect's earlier Charles Street Meeting House (1804), its 3 1⁄2-story brick entry tower is crowned with a cupola; the whole tower projects outward somewhat from the church hall behind. Four shallow brick pilasters, each two stories high and trimmed with white wood, separate the three entry doors. Each door is echoed by a window above it. The tower's third story is outfitted with pairs of Doric pilasters. On the final half-story beneath the cupola are clocks on each face of the tower, each adorned with a light swag. On the back wall, the original central pulpit window has been filled in with brickwork.
Old West's preaching played a major role in American history. Jonathan Mayhew, the church's second Congregational pastor, spoke out as early as 1750 about the justice of removing tyrannical leaders. His preaching was theologically radical as well, and is held by some Unitarians to have predated William Ellery Channing in his exposition of anti-trinitarian views. By the early 19th century, the resultant Unitarianism had converted 9 of Boston's original 13 orthodox Congregational churches.
The church was originally and for 150 years Congregational, a branch of the Boston Public Library 1894–1960, and has been owned by the United Methodist Church since 1961. It was designated a National Historic Landmark for its architectural significance in 1970.
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