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The Old South Meeting House is a historic Congregational church building located at the corner of Milk and Washington Streets in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1729. It gained fame as the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773.
The Old State House, also known as the Old Provincial State House, [3] is a historic building in Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1713. It was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798. It is located at the intersection of Washington and State Streets and is one of the oldest public buildings in the United States. [4]
Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, also known as New Old South Church or Third Church, is a historic United Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669. Its present building was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears, completed in 1873, and amplified by the architects Allen & Collens between 1935–1937.
Old South Meeting House, 2015. The Old South Meeting House, built in 1729 was the site of numerous pre-revolutionary meetings, including one, attended by a crowd estimated at more than 5,000, on the evening prior to the Boston Tea Party in December 1773. It served as a church until 1877, when it became a museum operated by a nonprofit ...
View history; General ... Old South Church in Boston. December 30, 1970 645 Boylston St. ... Old South Meeting House. October 9, 1960
1729 – Old South Meeting House [1] and Granary built. [2] 1732 – Hollis Street Church established. 1733 – September 27: Rebekah Chamblit executed. 1735 – Trinity Church built on Summer St. 1737 Charitable Irish Society of Boston founded. [10] Saint Patrick's Day begins. [15] 1738 – Workhouse built. [2] 1742 – Faneuil Hall built.
For the South Meeting House, that would have amounted to about $26,000 per year, she said. But the last tenant there, Portsmouth Public Media, found it “increasingly difficult” to meet that ...
After the project of erecting a public market house in Boston had been discussed for some years, colonial merchant and slave trader Peter Faneuil offered, at a public meeting in 1740, to build a suitable edifice at his own cost as a gift to the town.