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The Wesleyan Building (est.1870) of
Boston
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,
, is located on Bromfield Street in the vicinity of
Downtown Crossing
Downtown Crossing is a shopping district within downtown Boston, Massachusetts, located east of Boston Common, west of the Financial District, south of Government Center, and north of Chinatown and the old Combat Zone. It features large ...
. Architects Joseph Billings and
Hammatt Billings designed it as the headquarters of the
Methodist
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's b ...
Boston Wesleyan Association.
[Proud day in Methodism]
cornerstone laying is fitly recognized; new Wesleyan building inspires speakers, Rev. Dr. Parkhurst reviews society leaders." Boston Evening Transcript, Dec. 11, 1912 Tenants have included the New-England Methodist Historical Society; ''
Zion's Herald
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;'' Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
Boston Lyceum Bureau;
Boston Theological Seminary
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;
Boston University School of Law
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;
Emerson College of Oratory; and
Hudl.
[Hudl]
we just announced additional offices in Omaha, Nebraska; Boston, Massachusetts; and London, UK.
Retrieved 2015-07-20 By 1912 the Methodists had moved to a new building on Copley Square.
References
Images
Image:1873 WesleyanHall BostonDailyGlobe January18.png, Advertisement for concert by Hugo Leonhard and Julius Eichberg, Wesleyan Hall, 1873
Image:1874 WesleyanHall BostonDailyGlobe Nov13.png, Advertisement, 1874
Image:1891 EmersonCollege BromfieldSt Boston USA.png, Advertisement for Emerson College of Oratory, 1891, with views of interior
Image:1896 BromfieldSt Boston map byStadly BPL 12479 detail.png, Detail of 1896 map of Boston showing Wesleyan Hall
Image:WymansLunch BromfieldSt ca1910 Boston byDetroitPubCo LC 4a22598a detail.jpg, Bromfield Street, 1910, with glimpse of Wesleyan Hall sign
External links
* Boston Landmarks Commission. Photos, 1973:
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Wesleyan Association Building 32-38 Bromfield Street, Boston
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Wesleyan Association Building Bromfield Street
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Wesleyan Association Building Bromfield Street
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Commercial buildings completed in 1870
Financial District, Boston
Buildings and structures in Boston