<\/center><\/p>\nBoston’s New Old South Church<\/a>, on Boylston Street, is located off Copley Square, not far from Trinity Church<\/a>, and was built<\/a> in 1874-5. At that time, the congregation<\/a> moved from its famous eighteenth century meetinghouse<\/a>. Designed<\/a> in a Venetian or Northern Italian Gothic<\/a> style by Charles Cummings<\/a>, based on the High Victorian Gothic<\/a> ideas of John Ruskin<\/a>, the church<\/a> makes a strong architectural statement<\/a> on its prominent corner location<\/a>, contrasting<\/a> with the neoclassical Boston Public Library across the street<\/a>. John Evans, a sculptor from Scotland, carved the exterior sculpture of both New Old South<\/a> and Trinity churches. The original tower<\/a> began to lean and was removed in 1931, eventually being replaced by a newer and shorter tower<\/a> in 1941.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boston’s New Old South Church, on Boylston Street, is located off Copley Square, not far from Trinity Church, and was built in 1874-5. At that time, the congregation moved from its famous eighteenth century meetinghouse. Designed in a Venetian or Northern Italian Gothic style by Charles Cummings, based on the High Victorian Gothic ideas of John Ruskin, the church makes a strong architectural statement on its prominent corner location, contrasting with the neoclassical Boston Public Library across the street. John Evans, a sculptor from Scotland, carved the exterior sculpture of both New Old South and Trinity churches. The original tower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,64,80],"tags":[57,81],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston","category-churches","category-gothic","tag-back-bay","tag-congregational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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