The Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church is a church located beside Harvard Law School near the

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common. Its congregation was organized in March 1941 by the merger of Harvard Street Methodist Church and Epworth Methodist Church. The building was designed by Amos P. Cutting of

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style, and constructed by Cutting and Bishop. Costs were borne primarily by George Bird and philanthropist

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. Its cornerstone was laid on October 3, 1891, and the church dedicated on February 22, 1893. The structure is built of Southville red granite with East Longmeadow sandstone trimming, and furnished inside with fine wood. Its square, central tower is 110 feet in height and capped with a red, pyramidal roof.

Ministers

* Charles Francis Rice (1893-1898) *

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(1898-1904) *

William Westley Guth William Westley Guth (October 15, 1871 – April 19, 1929) was an American attorney, Methodist minister, and academic who served as the fourth president of Goucher College. Early life, family, and education Guth was born on October 15, 1871, ...

(1904-1905)

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Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church
{{Authority control Christian organizations established in 1941 United Methodist churches in Massachusetts 20th-century Methodist church buildings Churches in Cambridge, Massachusetts