Old South Church (Boston, Massachusetts)
USA /
Massachusetts /
Somerville /
Boston, Massachusetts /
Boylston Street, 645
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World / United States / Massachusetts
NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, Gothic revival (architecture), United Church of Christ (UCC), 1870s construction, U.S. National Historic Landmark
United Church of Christ. Looking at Old South Church from Copley Square, you see an outstanding and colorful example of Northern Italian Gothic architecture, advocated in the 1850s by the English architectural critic John Ruskin. This National Historic Landmark building is an unusually ornate design for a New England Congregational church. It radiates the opulent taste and the sense of optimism and progress of the Industrial Revolution following the Civil War. The church, constructed between 1872 and 1875 for a congregation founded in 1669, is distinguished by its tall bell tower; brown, pink and grey stonework; walls of Roxbury puddingstone; decorative carvings; a roof striped with tiles of red and black slate; and a cupola or lantern of green and russet-colored copper.
www.oldsouth.org/
www.oldsouth.org/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_South_Church
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 42°21'0"N 71°4'40"W
- Boston Public Garden 0.8 km
- Boston Common 1.1 km
- Frederick Douglass Square Historic District 1.5 km
- Fenway Park 1.8 km
- Long Wharf 2.4 km
- Charlestown Navy Yard 3.5 km
- Former Site of Boston Naval Shipyard 3.6 km
- Harvard Stadium 4.5 km
- Cambridge Common 4.8 km
- Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 6.6 km
- Back Bay 0.3 km
- St. Botolph 0.7 km
- Charles River Esplanade Park 0.7 km
- Cathedral Square 1.2 km
- Beacon Hill 1.2 km
- South End 1.2 km
- Boston's Chinatown 1.3 km
- MIT (Neighbourhood) 1.6 km
- Financial District 1.8 km
- Southwest Corridor Park 3.6 km