National Register of Historic Places

First Parish Church

Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Listed
July 20, 1978
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
78001404

About this property

The First Parish Church is a historic Unitarian Universalist (formerly Congregationalist) church at Tremont and Depot Streets in Duxbury, Massachusetts. First Parish Church is currently a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association. The original Duxbury congregation was founded in 1632 by Elder William Brewster as a Christian Separatist church with early members coming from the First Parish Church in Plymouth, the oldest church in New England. In the beginning, the church likely met in congregants' homes until the first meeting house was built near what is today known as Miles Standish Burial Ground. The Duxbury congregation became a parish church of Massachusetts' Congregationalist state church. A schism developed at the turn of the 19th century, when much of the congregation adopted Unitarianism along with many of the other state churches in Massachusetts. State churches were officially disaffiliated with the Massachusetts government in 1834. The current church building was constructed in 1840. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County, Massachusetts The records from 1825–1846 of the First Parish Church are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Location

Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
42.03497, -70.69200

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When was First Parish Church listed on the National Register?

First Parish Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 20, 1978.

What type of historic resource is First Parish Church?

First Parish Church is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for First Parish Church is recorded as the industrial era.

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