bMS 593
Boston, Massachusetts. Arlington Street Church. Records, 1927-1980.
AUTHOR: Arlington Street Church, Boston, Mass.
SERIES TITLE: Records, 1927-1980.
QUANTITY: 8.75 c.f.. 25 boxes.
HISTORY: Unitarian Universalist church. Founded in 1729 by Irish immigrants who used a presbyterian form of church government. In 1786 it adopted a congregational polity. Known first as "the Presbyterian Church in Long Lane" and later as the Federal Street Church. In 1862 the church moved to a new building on Arlington Street in the Back Bay section of Boston, and its name became the Arlington Street Church.
SUMMARY: Mixed files of correspondence and collected resources on social and religious movements. Resource topics include: abortion; adoption; alcoholism; capital punishment; draft resistance; housing and hunger; mental health; and population control. Files also reflect congregational operations issues, including adult education; bible studies; physical plant; congregational organizations; day care; service preparations; fund-raising; investments; membership; religious education; and the congregation's relationship with the Unitarian Universalist Association.
CITATION: Cite as: Arlington Street Church (Boston, Mass.), bMS 593; Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School.
PROVENANCE: unknown
Container List:
Box 1
Abortion --Sermon: "Does Mankind Have a Chance?" --W. Edward Harris, Feb. 2, 1969
Academy of Religion and Mental Health
Adams, James Luther --1972
Adoption --1969-70
Adult Education Classes --1959-63
Adult Education Association of New England --1960-61
Adult Literacy Project, Massachusetts Council for Public Schools --1966
Advisory Council --1970-71
Aging --1969
Alcohol --Printed Matter --1969
Alcoholism, Greater Boston Council On --1965-66
Alcoholism Workshop --1962-63 (1)
Alcoholism Workshop --1962-63 (2)
Al-Anon --c.1967
Alliance --1970
Americans United for Separation of Church and State --1968
Ames, Robert Witt --Mural --1965
Associated Bible Students --1970
Atkins, Thomas --Campaign for City Council --1967-68
Box 2
Atherton, Percy A. --papers preserved by (1)
Atherton, Percy A. --papers preserved by (2)
Auction Material --1946
Babysitting (University of Massachusetts) --1970
Baha'i --Morocco --Nabor Trial --1963
Bank --1964-68
Bartlett, Josiah --1969
Beacon Hill Tree School --1970
Benevolent Fraternity --1960-61
Benevolent Fraternity --1962-65
Benevolent Fraternity --1966
Benevolent Fraternity --1967
Benevolent Fraternity --1968-69
Bibbo, John and Alice --1958
Book Table
Boone, James and Janet --1966-69
Box 2, cont.
Boston Area Civic Organizations
Boston Campaign and Candidates --1961-67
Boston Industrial Mission --1968-69
Boston Redevelopment Authority --1965
Boston Psychoanalytic Society --1969
Box 3
Boston University Human Relations Center --1964
Boston University --Lay Interns
Brandeis University --Conference on Community Values and Conflict
Britton, George --Folk Mass --1969-70
Building --Chapel (addition), basement alteration --1928-29 (1)
Building --Chapel (addition), basement alteration --1928-29 (2)
Building Maintenance Committee --Installation of heating --1885
Building Maintenance Committee --8/1935 -7/1946
Building Maintenance Committee --7/1946 -2/1949
Building Maintenance Committee --2/1949 -4/1951
Building Maintenance Committee --4/1951 -6/1961
Box 4
Building Maintenance Committee --1965-70
Building Renovation Committee --1871-1902
Building Renovation Committee --1924; 1931-47
Building Renovation Committee --1955-63
Business and Professional Group --1960-62
By-laws --1967
Capital Punishment, Committee for Abolition
Center City Church
Channing Club --1944-52
Chapel Windows, tables, etc. --1928-29
Charles River Square Property (parsonage) --1935-
Children's Chapel --1939
Christening Font --1940-41
Church and the Arts Committee --1966-68
Church of the Disciples --1929-50
Church of the Disciples (plus misc. earlier papers) --1950-53
Box 5
Civic Affairs Committee --1953-56
Civic Center and Clearing House --1965
Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts --1959-62
Cole, Paul --1969
Collection Plates --1927
College Mental Health Center of Boston, Inc. --1968
Committee of 100
Committee on Committees --1951-60
Committees --Lists --1956-70
Communion Service
Community Information Center --1969-70
Condolences --1965-67
Conscientious Objectors --1967-70
Correspondence --General --A
Correspondence --General --B
Correspondence --General --C
Correspondence --General --Cushing, Cardinal
Correspondence --General --D
Correspondence --General --F, G
Correspondence --General --H
Correspondence --General --I, J, K
Correspondence --General --L
Correspondence --General --Mc
Correspondence --General --M
Correspondence --General --Myers, Richard
Correspondence --General --N, O, P
Correspondence --General --R
Correspondence --General --S
Box 6
Correspondence --General --U, W
Correspondence --General --Mendelsohn, Jack
Couples Club --1960-63
Counseling Service --1956; 1961
Country Store --1947-48
Day Care Center --1969
Box 6, cont.
Denominational Affairs Committee --1961-70
Dial-a-Listener
Displays --Committee on Exhibits and Displays --correspondence --1960s
Displays --Committee on Exhibits and Displays --printed matter --1960s
Displays, Window --by other organizations --1960s
Draft Resistance --1966-68
Drugs --1967
Drugs, Special Commission on --Report --1968
Box 7
Easter Breakfast --1967-68
Eastman Kodak --1966-67
Educational Cooperative --1967
Fellowship Dinner --1965
Fellowship for Renewal --1969-70
Finance and Administration Committee
First Church Fire and Rebuilding/Merger --1968
"Forum, Tuesday Public" --1959-66
Fund-Raising --Annual Appeal --1937-50
Fund-Raising --Annual Appeal --1953-54
Fund-Raising --Annual Appeal --1954-55
Fund-Raising --Annual Appeal --1956-57
Fund-Raising --Annual Appeal --1958
Fund-Raising --Annual Appeal --1960-64
Fund-Raising --Printed matter
Box 8
Funerals/Memorial Services
Gannett Club --1951-52
General Theological Library --1960-64
Ghana Society of Religious Liberals
Gould Farm --1969
Greeley, Mrs. Emily E. --1966-69
Greenfield Group --1961-62
Head Start
Helm, Thomas E. --Ordination --Dec. 8, 1968
Box 8, cont.
Henderson, Michael --1968-69
Hohler, Robert --On investments (hunger Strike) --April 4 Committee
Housing Innovations, The Foundation for --1967
Housing Innovations, The Foundation for --1968
Housing --Citizen's Housing and Planning Association of Metropolitan Boston --1965-66
Human Relations Committee --1964-67
Hunger --Conference on World Hunger (1967) --1965-67 (1)
Box 9
Hunger --Conference on World Hunger (1967) --1965-67 (2)
Incidents --1970-72
Information Center --1956-57
Installations --1935-59
Insurance --1961-78
International Institute of Boston --1959-68
Inventory --1932-58
Investment Committee --Minutes --1958-67
Investment Committee --Correspondence --1946; 1955-64
Investment Committee --Correspondence and printed matter --1966-67
Investment Committee --Votes --1967
Investment Committee --Loomes, Sayles and Co. --1967
Box 10
Investment Committee --National Committee on Tithing in Investment
Investment Committee --Related material --1967-68
Kidney Disease --Conference on Chronic Uremia
Laymen's League --Members, notices --1959-62
Laymen's League --Referrals
Leadership Training Conference --1952-62
Liberal Religious Students of Boston (1)
Liberal Religious Students of Boston (2)
Liberal Religious Youth --Correspondence --1968-70
Liberal Religious Youth --Special Committee (Confidential)
Library
Liquor License Commission
Martin, Dorothy --1966-69
Box 10, cont.
Massachusetts Committee on Discrimination in Housing --1968
Massachusetts for Constitutional Reform --1962-63
Box 11
Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare --Family Recruitment Project
Massachusetts Executive Department --State House --1962-68
Massachusetts Manpower Development and Training Act
Meditations
Membership --Committee --1953
Membership --Committee --1959-71
Membership --Committee --1962
Membership --Committee --new members invited to reception at Charchias --1962
Membership --Committee --memberships which may lapse --1962
Membership --New Members --reception of, form letter --1959-61
Membership --New Members --prospective --1961-62
Membership --New Members --letters with welcome to corporation --1961-62
Membership --New Members --letters of welcome --1960-64
Membership --New Members --letters of welcome --1964-66
Membership --New Members --letters of welcome --1966-67
Membership --New Members --letters of welcome --1967-68
Membership --New Members --letters of welcome --1968-69
Box 12
Membership --New Members --letters of welcome --1969-70
Membership --Withdrawals --1950-67
Membership --Withdrawals --1967-70
Membership --Recap --1939-62
Membership --Legal Membership --1948; 1955-57
Membership --Parish List --1958; 1961
Memorial Service --1973
Memorial Society of Massachusetts
Men's Club --1935-38
Mental Health --Boston Mental Health Survey --1964
Mental Health --College Mental Health Center of Boston --1967
Mental Health --Massachusetts Mental Health Planning Project --1964-66 (1)
Mental Health --Massachusetts Mental Health Planning Project --1964-66 (2)
Box 13
Ministerial Committee --1933-35
Ministers' Club of Boston --1968-69
Mission Brotherhood Cash Book --1932-35
Montessori Family Centre
Nasser, George
National Conference of Christians and Jews --Summer Conference --1968
New England Free Press
8 Newbury Street
News Releases --1959-65
Nominating Committee --1961-68
The Open Circle --1941
Open House --1958
Operettas
Ordinations, 1951; 1954 --Youth Sunday, 1958
Andover Organ Co. --1968
Organ --New --1955-58
Organizations --Miscellaneous --1961-65
Oriental Philosophy
Parsonage Repairs --1966-67
Box 14
Parsonage Committee --Possible Sale of --1969-70
Peace --A. F. S. C. --1968
Personnel --1958-59
Personnel --1960-69
Personnel Study --1952
Peru --1963
Pews --1949-64
Annual Picnic
Planned Parenthood League --1963-70
Population Control --1970
Porter, Betty Ann
Positive Program for Boston
Preaching Mission Committee --1947-56
Pregnancy Counseling Service --1970
Prisons --1967
Programs and Promotion --1952-62; 1970
Box 14, cont.
Project Equality --1967-70
Proprietorship --Church Reorganization --1936-40
Public Relations --Publicity
Real Estate --1960; 1966; 1969
Box 15
Reeb, Rev. James --1965-67
Reference --1965-67
Religion in an Age of Science, Institute on --1969
Religious Education --R. E. reports to A. U. A. --1944-50
Religious Education --Attendance (includes adult class) --1950-53
Religious Education --Budgets --1950-54
Religious Education --Committee Minutes --1951-54
Religious Education --Director of R. E. --1950-54
Religious Education --Enrollment --1949-53
Religious Education --Junior Choir --1950-54
Religious Education --Nursery Roll --1950-54
Religious Education --Offerings --1950-54
Religious Education --Organizations --1950-54
Religious Education --Renovation for game room and three class rooms --1951-53
Religious Education --Reports --1947-63
Box 16
Religious Education --Teachers --1949-54
Religious Education --Weekly Groups --1951-54
Religious Education --Printed matter and resource material --1948-62 (1)
Religious Education --Printed matter --1948-62 (2)
Religious Education --Adult Education --Schedules, membership, reports --1947-54
Religious Education --Adult Education --printed matter
Religious Education --Committee --minutes, reports, correspondence --1958-61
Religious Education --Church School Activities --1959-65
Religious Education --Development of Children Seminar --1967-68
Religious Education --Committee --Minutes, letters, printed matter --1968-69
Religious Education --Arlington Street Center for Religious Education --prospectus, minutes, letters, reports, printed matter --1970
Religious Education --Master Dittos --program announcements, poetry, memos --1972
Box 16, cont.
Resource Center for Social Change --1969
Box 17
Resources (Program)
Roxbury Project for Adult Literacy
Salamone, Rev. Louis --1960-70
Schedules, Weekly --Dec. 16-22, 1968; Mar. 1969 -Sept. 1970
Schools --National Committee for the Support of the Public Schools (1)
Schools --National Committee for the Support of the Public Schools (2)
Second Church Negotiations --1967
Senior Center --1970-71
Sermon Discussion
Singles Club --Constitution, membership, correspondence --1960-70
Singles Club --Program Committee --1972
Singles Club --Theater Party: "How I Won the War" --1967
Singles Club --Newsletter: "The Gnew Gnomic" --Feb. 1969 -Aug. 1970
"Spotlight" (newsletter)
Star Island Corporation --1960-65
Summer Schedules --Maintenance, staff procedure
Summer Union Services --1955-67
Telephone Indemnity Agreement --1969
Theological Education --Lay Internship --1966
Box 18
"Trube" --Children's Theater --Dec. 1968 -Apr. 1969
Tuesday Public Forum
Twenty-Nine Plus Singles Club --1967-70
UUA --AUA Anniversary Week --1934-44 (1)
UUA --AUA Anniversary Week (2)
UUA --AUA Commission on Ethics and Social Action --1960
UUA --Council of Liberal Churches --1959-60
UUA --AUA Presidency --1958
UUA --AUA Yearbook --1938-61
UUA --Unitarian Service Committee --correspondence, projects, newsletters --1940-50 (1)
UUA --Unitarian Service Committee --includes tuberculosis class committee, 1942-52 (2)
UUA --UUA Annual Fund --1968-71
Box 18, cont.
UUA --Beacon Press --1970
UUA --Benevolent Fraternity Annual Reports --1959-66; 1969; 1971
Box 19
UUA --Church and State and Schools (1)
UUA --Church and State and Schools (2)
UUA --Church of the Larger Fellowship --1963-64
UUA --Commission on Aging --1968
UUA --Committee for an Informal UUA Electorate --1965-66
UUA --Denominational Investment File --1967-68 (1)
UUA --Denominational Investment File --1967-68 (2)
UUA --Department of Ministry --1967-68
UUA --UU Fellowship for Social Justice --1960-67
UUA --General Assembly --1964
UUA --General Assembly (Boston) --1965
UUA --General Assembly --Continental breakfasts --1965
Box 20
UUA --General Assembly (Miami, Fl.) --1966
UUA --General Assembly --1967
UUA --Goals Questionnaire --1967
UUA --Goals --report
UUA --Interdistrict representatives --1969-70
UUA --Laymen's League --Convocation: The Future of Freedom --1966
UUA --Laymen's League --1970
UUA --Massachusetts Bay District Newsletter --1968-69
UUA --Massachusetts Bay District Newsletter --1968-70
UUA --May Meetings --1959-61
Box 21
UUA --Ministers' Association --1968
UUA --New York Metropolitan District Annual Meeting: "The Future of the Denomination" -- 1967
UUA --President --1958-69
UUA --Presidential Campaign --1968-69
Box 21, cont.
UUA --Promotion, fund-raising, questionnaires, et. al. --1964
UUA --Reorganization --1967
UUA --""UUA Now" --Oct. 5, 1968 and Jan. 5, 1969
UUA --UN Office --1966-70
UUSC --Committee
UUSC --Correspondence --1968-70
UUSC --Fund Drive --1969
UUSC --Vietnam Aid Project
"UU World" --1970
U. S. Government Representatives --1965-67
Use of Building
Box 22
Vesper Services --1959-60
Visiting Committee --1964-70
Warren, Keith
Watch and Ward Society (1)
Watch and Ward Society (2)
Whitehouse, George
Williams, Ilka --Fund --1966-70
Women's Bureau --Ecumenical Service --1970
Woodworth, John
World War II (1)
World War II (2)
Worship Services --1968
Young Audiences
Youth Ministry --Boston Student Committee
Youth Ministry --Hippies --1968
Youth Ministry --Hippies --1969 (1)
Box 23
Youth Ministry --Hippies --1969 (2)
Youth Ministry --Ad Hoc Committee, Harbridge Hours, Walnut Street Gang --1969
Youth --National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ): Tel Noar Project on Youth Leadership --Sept. 1968
Zoning --Boston --1953
Box 23, cont.
Dana M. Greeley Papers --Black UU Caucus --1967-69
Dana M. Greeley Papers --"Das Bundnerische Munstertal"
Dana M. Greeley Papers --Correspondence, Historical Papers --1969-86
Dana M. Greeley Papers --Emerson Commemorative Committee --1982-83
Dana M. Greeley Papers --Fenn, William Wallace and Faith: Profiles --1981
Dana M. Greeley Papers --John F. Kennedy --1917-93
Dana M. Greeley Papers --Misc. early papers
Dana M. Greeley Papers --Personal finances
Dana M. Greeley Papers --Poetry memorized
Box 24
Dana M. Greeley Papers --Summer Trip --1933
Dana M. Greeley Papers --UUA Annual Meeting, acceptance speech --1961
Dana M. Greeley Papers --World Conference on Religion and Peace --1984
Youth (AUY and UYF) --1952-54
Dana M. Greeley Papers --Young People's Religious Union --1927-34
Box 25
Scrapbook (loose) --Universalist Youth Laboratory, Ferry Beach --1950
Greely Family --photographs
Dana M. Greeley --1940s -1960s
Dana M. Greeley --1970s
Dana M. Greeley --1980s (Concord)
Series of photos, put together by Dana M. Greeley (many missing) --1974
UUA --1980
IARF
WCRP
World Federalists --1974
Japan --1980s
Nachod, Hans
Dana M. Greeley --certificate, Order of the Good Time
Dana M. Greeley --certificate, Young Men's Christian Union (Boston)