Bunker Hill Baptist Church Charlestown, 1845-1910, Bunker Hill Street

Title:: Bunker Hill Baptist Church Charlestown, 1845-1910, Bunker Hill Street
Description:: Bunker Hill Baptist Church Charlestown, 1845-1910, Bunker Hill Street. In January 1850, the Bethesda Baptist Church was organized, called since 1851 the Bunker Hill Baptist Church, which built (1851) a plain wooden house at the corner of Mystic Street. Mr. Robert Oliver who taught a bible class here for years remembers hearing as a boy that the great storm that destroyed Minot's Light blew over the steeple of this church, killing a passerby. The church was remodeled in 1885 and made much more elaborate in the style sometimes called "Queen Anne." This house has a steeple westward, and is bounded on two sides by streets and on the other two by buildings.
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Date:: [ca. 1850–1925]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Baptist churches
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Additional information accompanying item: Hunnewell, pp. 57 and 58.
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Miss Rachel Stevens
Notes (date):: Date from accompanying materials: Before 1925
Date supplied by cataloger.
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-158-B1