National Register of Historic Places

Unitarian Memorial Church

Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Listed
November 22, 1996
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
96001374

About this property

Unitarian Memorial Church is a historic church on 102 Green Street in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, home to the Unitarian Universalist Society of Fairhaven. The congregation was founded in 1819, moved into the Washington Street Christian Meetinghouse in 1832, and called its first minister in 1840. The Reverend María Uitti McCabe is its currently serving minister, and the Society President is Keith Murphy. UUSF is a member congregation of the Boston-based Unitarian Universalist Association, and a designated GLBTQA Welcoming Congregation, a UUA Honor Congregation, and a part of the Green Sanctuary movement. Services are held in the neo-Gothic sanctuary at 10:00 a.m. from September through mid-June each year. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven was built, financed and donated to the Unitarians in 1904 by Henry H. Rogers in memory of his mother. The church was designed by Boston architect Charles Brigham in a Gothic Revival style. It is one hundred and fourteen feet (35 m) in height, one hundred feet (30 m) long in body and fifty-three feet (16 m) wide. The nave is thirty-two feet (9.8 m) wide and seventy-one feet (22 m) long. The main aisle is sixty-two feet (19 m) long and six feet (1.8 m) wide. The church, parish house and former parsonage (now Harrop Center) of the Unitarian Society are so placed as to form three sides of a quadrangle. There is a tower over one hundred and sixty-five feet (50 m) high, with eleven bells.

Location

102 Green St.
Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts
41.63369, -70.90211

Categories

ARCHITECTURECOMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTSOCIAL HISTORY
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When was Unitarian Memorial Church listed on the National Register?

Unitarian Memorial Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1996.

What type of historic resource is Unitarian Memorial Church?

Unitarian Memorial Church is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Unitarian Memorial Church is recorded as the industrial era.

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