{"id":5592,"date":"2012-12-02T00:09:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T05:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2012-12-02T00:09:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T05:09:46","slug":"united-congregational-church-worcester-1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5592","title":{"rendered":"United Congregational Church, Worcester (1885)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dissatisfaction<\/a> over the choice of minister at the Old South Church in Worcester in 1820 led Daniel Waldo<\/a> (1763-1845) to organize a new parish<\/a>, originally called the Calvinist Church. The name was officially changed to Central Church in 1879. Waldo paid for the construction of the congregation’s first meetinghouse in 1823-1825. Located on Main Street<\/a>, near George Street, it was later replaced<\/a> by the current church<\/a>, built in 1884-1885 at the corner of Salisbury Street and Institute Road. The Romanesque Revival-style Central Church<\/a>, built of Longmeadow brownstone, was designed by Stephen C. Earle<\/a>. When the studio of John LaFarge<\/a> proved too busy to design the interiors, the church commissioned Sarah Lyman Whitman, a former student of William Morris Hunt<\/a>. Central Church<\/a> merged with Chestnut Street Congregational Church<\/a> in 1982 to form United Congregational Church<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dissatisfaction over the choice of minister at the Old South Church in Worcester in 1820 led Daniel Waldo (1763-1845) to organize a new parish, originally called the Calvinist Church. The name was officially changed to Central Church in 1879. Waldo paid for the construction of the congregation’s first meetinghouse in 1823-1825. Located on Main Street, near George Street, it was later replaced by the current church, built in 1884-1885 at the corner of Salisbury Street and Institute Road. The Romanesque Revival-style Central Church, built of Longmeadow brownstone, was designed by Stephen C. Earle. When the studio of John LaFarge proved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,55,191],"tags":[81,181],"class_list":["post-5592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","category-richardsonian-romanesque","category-worcester","tag-congregational","tag-stephen-c-earle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592","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=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5603,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}