{"id":7228,"date":"2016-01-10T13:59:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2016-01-10T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T19:02:40","slug":"first-congregational-church-of-stockbridge-1824","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7228","title":{"rendered":"First Congregational Church of Stockbridge (1824)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/First-Congregational-Church.jpg\" alt=\"First Congregational Church of Stockbridge\" width=\"500\" height=\"728\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/First-Congregational-Church.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/First-Congregational-Church-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stockbridgechamber.org\/business-and-professional-services\/first-congregational-church-of-the-united-church-of-christ\/\">At 4 Main Street in Stockbridge<\/a> is the the <a href=\"http:\/\/stockbridgeucc.org\/\">First Congregational Church<\/a>, built in 1824. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historicalsketch01field\">The church began<\/a> in 1734 with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Sergeant_(missionary)\">John Sergeant<\/a>&#8216;s mission to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahican\">Mahican people<\/a> of the Berkshire Hills. The first church building, erected in 1739, stood where the <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5448\">Chime Tower<\/a> is today. The second church building, built in 1785, stood at the foot of Old Meeting House Road. The current brick church was restructured in 1865 to accommodate a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnson_Organs\">Johnson Organ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 4 Main Street in Stockbridge is the the First Congregational Church, built in 1824. The church began in 1734 with John Sergeant&#8216;s mission to the Mahican people of the Berkshire Hills. The first church building, erected in 1739, stood where the Chime Tower is today. The second church building, built in 1785, stood at the foot of Old Meeting House Road. The current brick church was restructured in 1865 to accommodate a Johnson Organ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,53,183],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","category-federal","category-stockbridge","tag-congregational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228","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=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}