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Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church

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266:, at the southwest corner of Broadway and Central Street. It is a wood-frame structure, with a gable roof set perpendicular to Broadway. Its exterior is finished in a combination of stone on the ground floor, and shingles on the upper sections. The main gable has a slightly projecting peak section, above a grouping of three stained glass windows topped by transom-like fixed panes. Projecting forward from the gables left end is a circular two-story turret with a conical roof. Projecting left toward Central Street is a tall square tower, whose front houses the main entrance under a shed-roof portico. The tower is somewhat medieval in appearance, with small windows in its stone lower section. The stone section is topped by a wood-frame louvered belfry, the openings adorned by Stick style woodwork. The tower is capped by a pyramidal roof with flared modillioned eave. 270: 51: 65: 917: 90: 929: 461: 906: 97: 72: 544: 249:
for a Congregationalist congregation founded in 1865, it is one of the city's only examples of Shingle style architecture, and one of its finer architect-designed buildings from the 19th century. The building was listed on the
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in 1863, and was formally organized as a congregation two year later. The congregation split over doctrinal issues in 1881, with the Winter Hill Congregational Society building this structure in 1890–91, having used an older
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, Massachusetts
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The Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church stands near the summit of
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Congregational church activity began in the Winter Hill area as a
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
254:in 1989. It is now home to the Vida Real Church. 241:is a historic church building at 404 Broadway in 946: 922:National Register of Historic Places portal 16:Historic church in Massachusetts, United States 396: 980:Shingle Style architecture in Massachusetts 970:Churches in Middlesex County, Massachusetts 403: 389: 257: 239:Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church 49: 30:Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church 38:U.S. National Register of Historic Places 285:church before then. It was designed by 268: 947: 328:"National Register Information System" 322: 320: 301:, next to the church on Central Street 384: 333:National Register of Historic Places 252:National Register of Historic Places 344: 317: 245:. Built in 1890–91 to a design by 13: 14: 1001: 990:Hartwell and Richardson buildings 369: 927: 915: 905: 904: 459: 95: 88: 70: 63: 354:. 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Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church is located in Massachusetts
Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church is located in the United States
Somerville, Massachusetts
42°23′43″N 71°5′57″W / 42.39528°N 71.09917°W / 42.39528; -71.09917
Hartwell and Richardson
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Somerville MPS
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Somerville, Massachusetts
Hartwell and Richardson
National Register of Historic Places
Winter Hill

Sunday School
Carpenter Gothic
Hartwell and Richardson
Downer Rowhouses
National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, Massachusetts


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"NRHP nomination for Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church"
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