Image of the Month for August 2009

The Universalist church in Newtonville, Massachusetts, was the outgrowth of a missionary effort in 1870 by members of the former Newton and Watertown Universalist Society and the former Watertown Universalist Church. The first meeting of the church was in February 1871. The Newton Universalist Society was organized in April of that year, and the Newton Universalist Church was organized in February 1873. The cornerstone of the church building was laid on October 22, 1872, and it was dedicated on June 26, 1873. It was popularly known as the Newtonville Universalist Church. The society and church were dissolved in 1937.

The library has the records of the Newton Universalist Society (bMS 236). Postcards of the church were included in the library's project to digitize postcards of Unitarian and Universalist church buildings. For more information, see the library's digital collections page about this project. [Postcard postmarked Sept. 19, 1912: bMS 349/5]

For information on obtaining a copy of this image or using it for publication, see the library's Digital Reproduction Policy.

To see past images of the month, visit the images of people and images of congregations pages.

These images, often buried deep in our collections, are selected by Clifford Wunderlich; please address corrections to him.