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The Old South Meeting House was built in 1729 as a Puritan house of worship. It is best known for the site of where the Boston Tea Party began. Today, the Old South Meeting House is a museum where they recreate the tea party debates. It has informative interactive displays and is packed with history.
The story behind the "Boston Tea Party" can be found here. Leave a Comment Address: 310 Washington StreetDirections: Corner of Milk and Washington Street. T-station: Downtown crossing (red/orange line)Website: www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org
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The paradoxical name of this soaring gothic landmark can be attributed to Boston's fickle upper classes, who in the mid-19th century abandoned their old berth at the venerable Old South Meetinghouse as its downtown location was increasingly taking on the trappings of a commercial district. In the shapeless expanse of the early Back Bay, therefore, the city's elite planted their new congregation, close to the new mansions beginning to line increasingly fashionable Commonwealth Avenue. Today, its soaring spires, inspired by the churches of mediaeval Venice, compete naturally with Trinity Church, its portly Richardsonian neighbour, and find it lacking in the guile necessary to pierce the sky with such brilliantly glinting Victorian accents. Leave a Comment Directions: Corner of Dartmouth and Boylston Street in Copley Square T stop: Copley (Green Line)
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Operating continuously as a church community since 1669, Old South Church began when colonists objected to Massachusetts?s requirement that religious dissenters join the First Church of Boston and formed Third Church of Boston (later Old South Church) in protest. The current building?sometimes referred to as New Old South Church?was completed in 1875 in a medieval architectural style that boasts impressive mosaics, stained glass, and cherry woodwork. (Worship held Sun) Leave a Comment Address: 645 Boylston StPhone: (617) 536-1970?Directions: Right outside the T stopeWebsite: www.oldsouth.org
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Old South Meeting House
Old South has been the site of religious, political and social debate for over 300 years. At the time it was built in 1729 as a Congregational Church, the Old South Meeting House was the largest meeting space in Colonial Boston. This brick meeting house was built to replace the Cedar Meeting House, which its dissident Puritan congregation had outgrown. African-American poet Phillis Wheatley worshipped and Benjamin Franklin was baptized here (in 1706). When attendance at town meetings grew too large for Faneuil Hall, the Old South Meeting House served as a meeting site. In the years prior to the Revolution, town meetings were frequent at Old South as people gathered here to protest British rule. The most famous meeting took place here on December 16, 1773. Five thousand angry colonists came to protest the British tea tax. After the meeting a group of colonists went to the waterfront, boarded three ships, and dumped the tea into the harbor. The Boston Tea Party brought about the beginning of the American Revolution.
In 1876, the venerable structure was nearly demolished, but Bostonians rallied to rescue Old South. It was the first instance of successful historic preservation in New England. Leave a Comment Directions: 308 Washington Street, and the corner of Milk Street.
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This venerable church is across from the Boston Public Library and right next to the Copley T-stop. Leave a Comment
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New Old South Church
The first home of this church was the Old South Meeting House. It moved here in 1875, and added *new* to its name. Leave a Comment Directions: Corner of Dartmouth and Boylston, near the library and Copley Square.Other Contact: (617) 536-1970.
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Still standing proud and tall although dwarfed by nearby skyscrapers, the Old South Meetinghouse is an important Boston landmark. Used first as a church and then as a sort of oratory-house, the Old South was used by the colonists to rant against the perceived injustices committed upon them by the British government. It was also the site of the planning of the Boston Tea Party. Today, the church is a museum which can be visited for, of course, a fee. The accompanying photo fails to capture it in its entirety although the steeple is viewable in the photo under 'Downtown Crossing'. Leave a Comment Directions: Washington and Milk Streets
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Because of its role in Paul Revere's ride, Boston's Old North Church is much better known than the Old South Church. But the Old South Meeting House, as it is also known, also played a crucial role in the American Revolution. It is here that the angry citizens of Boston met to prepare for the Boston Tea Party, listening to rousing rhetoric before heading down to the harbor to dump the newly-taxed tea into the water (environmental regulations were less strict under British rule). Old South was chosen for the meeting because it was the largest space available to accomodate the expected crowd.
You definitely should visit the inside of these colonial churches. Unless you have grown up in New England, you'll find the interiors fascinating. The pew boxes, with doors, were built to retain heat, but the interiors were otherwise very simple, fitting with the colonial view of religion. While these churches may not be Notre-Dame de Paris, they are architectural wonders in their own right. Don't miss them. Leave a Comment
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