All Souls Church

196 Elm St., Braintree, Massachusetts. County/parish: Norfolk.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 07, 2015. NRIS 15000389.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • All Souls' Church
  • All Souls Church Unitarian Universalist

From Wikipedia:

All Souls Church (Braintree, Massachusetts)

All Souls Church, also known as All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Braintree, is a church on the National Register of Historic Places, it is located at 196 Elm Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. The building is a large fieldstone structure, in a cruciform plan with a square tower that has a crenellated top. The gable ends are decorated with bargeboard, and the entrance is set under a gabled entry porch below a large window with Gothic tracery. The church was designed by Boston architect Edwin J. Lewis Jr. and built in 1905 for a congregation organized in 1900; it is Braintree's first stone church building. Land for the building was donated by George O. Wales, a leading force in uniting Braintree's Unitarian and Universalist congregations.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

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