Historic Structure Report, Old South Meetinghouse, Boston, Massachusetts
Hecker JC. 1978. Historic Structure Report, Old South Meetinghouse, Boston, Massachusetts. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. NPS North Atlantic Region
This report presents the history and significance of the Old South Meeting House at Boston National Historical Park, as well as building programs, existing conditions, and recommendations for specific structural features. The Old South Meetinghouse played a role in the colonists' resistance to the Tea Act of May 1773. A number of events also occurred in the meeting house and its chapel during the 19th century. Public support for preservation was mobilized in the second half of the 1800s when the structure was threatened with destruction. The site is important as the location of the Cedar Meetinghouse, Old South's theological predecessor, and for the domestic and commercial buildings that once existed near its location.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Hecker, John
- Date of Issue
- 1978-03
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- BOST , NER
- Keywords
- Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Cedar Meetinghouse, church, Faneuil Hall, John Fiske, John Hancock, John Winthrop, Joseph Warren, meeting hall, Old South Work, pews, pulpit, Samuel Sewall, Third Church
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 040093: Old South Meeting House