100 Newman Ave., East Providence, Rhode Island. County/parish: Providence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 28, 1980. NRIS 80000003.
Part of East Providence MRA (NRIS 64000747).
1 contributing building.
Newman Congregational Church is a United Church of Christ congregation in East Providence, Rhode Island. The church is a two-story wood-frame structure on a high brick basement. It was built in 1810 for a congregation that was gathered in 1643. Newman Church is the oldest Congregationalist organization in Rhode Island. Historically located at the center of the Old Rehoboth "Ring of The Green," the church today is located between the historic Newman Cemetery and Carpenter, Lakeside, and Springvale Cemeteries.
Newman Church features in the 2022 Disney film Hocus Pocus 2.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41374604