Monument Square Methodist Church from mon. grounds

Title:: Monument Square Methodist Church from mon. grounds
Description:: Monument Square Methodist Church from mon[ument] grounds. Built in 1848, and enlarged in 1866. On the Sunday after Easter in 1882, the largest Protestant church attendance of the day was that of the Monument Square, or Union, Methodist Church -- 1025 at the two services. On the corresponding Sunday five years later, when the population of the town had increased by 4,000, the attendance at this and the other Protestant churches had dropped 35%.
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Date:: [ca. 1850–1925]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Methodist churches
Snow
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Mrs. Jessie G. Paine
Notes (date):: Date from accompanying materials: Before 1925
Date supplied by cataloger.
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-153-B1