All Souls Church (Braintree, Massachusetts) Explained

All Souls Church
Location:196 Elm Street, Braintree, Massachusetts
Coordinates:42.2231°N -71.0006°W
Built:1904
Architect:Edwin J. Lewis Jr.
Architecture:English Revival
Added:July 7, 2015
Refnum:15000389

All Souls Church, also known as All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Braintree, is a church on the National Register of Historic Places, it is located at 196 Elm Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. The building is a large fieldstone structure, in a cruciform plan with a square tower that has a crenellated top. The gable ends are decorated with bargeboard, and the entrance is set under a gabled entry porch below a large window with Gothic tracery. The church was designed by Boston architect Edwin J. Lewis Jr. and built in 1905 for a congregation organized in 1900; it is Braintree's first stone church building. Land for the building was donated by George O. Wales, a leading force in uniting Braintree's Unitarian and Universalist congregations.[1]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

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  1. Web site: MACRIS inventory record for All Souls Church. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2015-07-17.