FIRST PARISH UNITARIAN CHURCH

	First Parish Unitarian Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Medfield, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°11′14″N 71°18′25″W / 42.18722°N 71.30694°W
Built	1789
Architect	Bacon, Captain Joseph
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	74000376
Added to NRHP	April 18, 1974

The First Parish Unitarian Church, now the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Medfield, is a historic church on North Street in Medfield, Massachusetts. The white clapboarded church was built in 1789, as the third for a congregation established c. 1652. In 1839 it was rotated on its site ninety degrees. It lost its steeple in the New England Hurricane of 1938.^[2] The steeple was replaced in 1988, and the building's many layers of paint were stripped off in 2007.^[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ "MACRIS inventory record for First Parish Unitarian Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
^ "History of the Meeting House". First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford. Retrieved 2015-09-09.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[MACRIS-2] "MACRIS inventory record for First Parish Unitarian Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-30.

[hist-3] "History of the Meeting House". First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford. Retrieved 2015-09-09.

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First Parish Unitarian Church
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Location	Medfield, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°11′14″N 71°18′25″W / 42.18722°N 71.30694°W / 42.18722; -71.30694
Built	1789
Architect	Bacon, Captain Joseph
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	74000376 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 18, 1974