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, located in Beacon Hill, on Temple Street. The church operated for 30 years. Ministers included Thomas M. Clark (1836-1843); Clement Moore Butler (1844-1847); and Charles Mason (1848-1862; d.1862). Architect William Washburn designed the church building in 1835. In 1851, Isaac Smith Homans said:

The interior is beautifully painted by M. Bragaldi. The exterior of the building, including the towers (which are of the octagonal form), is 87 feet; breadth 68 feet. The basement is divided into 2 large rooms for lectures, Sunday-schools, &c. The height from the main floor above the basement to the centre of the main arch, is 45 feet; an arch is thrown over each of the side galleries, which is intersected by arches opposite the three windows on each side, and resting on each side upon four cluster columns of 24 inches diameter.

In 1865 the building was "sold to the Methodist Episcopal Society of North Russell Street."Winsor. The memorial history of Boston: including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, Volume 3. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882 __NOTOC__

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Image:GraceChurch TempleSt Boston HomansSketches1851.jpg, Grace Church, c. 1851 Image:CharlesMason GraceChurch Boston 19thc.png, Portrait of Charles Mason, minister 1848-1862 Image:1870 TempleSt Boston map byFFuchs JohnWeik detail.png, Overview of Temple Street, 1870.

Beacon Hill Reservoir The Beacon Hill Reservoir (1849-c. 1880) in Boston, Massachusetts provided water to Beacon Hill from Lake Cochituate. It could hold .Boston Auditing Dept. Annual report for 1875–1876 By 1876, the reservoir no longer distributed water, but rather ...

(at right), West Church (at left) Image:BeaconHillReservoir byJohnBHeywood Boston.png, Overview of reservoir, Grace Church (at center), part of Beacon Hill and West End, 19th century

References

Notes Further reading * American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge
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