{"id":3422,"date":"2011-10-16T10:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T14:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2011-10-16T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T14:39:53","slug":"first-congregational-church-south-hadley-1895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3422","title":{"rendered":"First Congregational Church, South Hadley (1895)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While still a part of Hadley, South Hadley<\/a> acquired its own minister<\/a> and meeting house<\/a> around 1733. When a new meeting house<\/a> was built in 1761, a split occurred<\/a> which eventually led to the erection of a separate meeting house in the eastern section of town, which became the town of Granby<\/a> in 1768. A third church<\/a> was built in 1815 and a fourth<\/a> in 1875. This latter building<\/a> was destroyed<\/a> in the great fire of 1894<\/a>. It was then replaced by<\/a> the current<\/a> building of the First Congregational Church<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While still a part of Hadley, South Hadley acquired its own minister and meeting house around 1733. When a new meeting house was built in 1761, a split occurred which eventually led to the erection of a separate meeting house in the eastern section of town, which became the town of Granby in 1768. A third church was built in 1815 and a fourth in 1875. This latter building was destroyed in the great fire of 1894. It was then replaced by the current building of the First Congregational Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,55,91],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","category-richardsonian-romanesque","category-south-hadley","tag-congregational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}