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First Congregational Chapel |
Number of Archive records |
1 |
Number of Library records |
0 |
Number of Photo records |
17 |
Number of Object records |
3 |
Related Records
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2004.007.060 - postcard
Color postcard of The First Congregational Chapel, Marion, Mass.
Record Type: Photo
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2004.007.063 - postcard
Color postcard of The First Congregational Chapel, Marion, Mass.
Record Type: Photo
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2004.007.064 - postcard
Color postcard of The First Congregational Chapel, Marion, Mass.
Record Type: Photo
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2004.007.092 - postcard
Color postcard of The First Congregational Chapel built by Elizabeth Taber in 1885 to keep children from having Sunday School in the Church building. Main Street opposite the Shawmut Bank.
Record Type: Photo
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2004.022.001 - Print, Photographic
Photo album - views of Marion and Tabor Academy, includes railroad depot, Main Street, Old Tabor Academy building (now the Town Hall), people, possibly Tabor students and teachers.
Record Type: Photo
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2008.001.007 - Digital photograph
Wharf Village -This 1920s-vintage view of Main Street looking west shows Nelson Block at left and the Congregational Chapel at right. Next to the chapel, the Silas Allen saltbox at 41 Main Street is visible, built in 1802. Jimmy Nelson ran a barbershop and sold fireworks for the Fourth of July off the pool table in the back of his establishment-often puffing a cigar while dispensing his explosive wares. Nelson Block at various times also hosted ...
Record Type: Photo
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2008.001.132 - Digital photograph
Churches - The former Congregational Chapel on Main Street was built in 1885 thanks to a gift from Marion benefactress Elizabeth Taber. She purchased the plot from Clark P. Howland, then Principal of Tabor Academy, at a cost of $300, with $5,000 allotted for construction of the building. The distinctive Shingle-Style design, formerly with eyebrow windows, was the work of noted Boston architect William Gibbons Preston. The structure was used for c...
Record Type: Photo
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2008.001.159 - Digital photograph
Legacy of Elizabeth Taber - Mrs. Taber's second gift to the Congregational Church came in 1885, when she bought a parcel of land at 37 Main Street from Tabor Academy Principal Clark P. Howland for $300 and gifted a further $5,000 for the building of Congregational Chapel. The chapel was designed in the Shingle Style by Boston architect William Gibbons Preston, a frequent summer visitor to Marion. This view dates to the mid-1920s.
Record Type: Photo
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2008.015.059 - Digital image
Wharf Village - 37 Main Street - The Congregational Chapel, built in 1885 from fund donated by Elizabeth Taber.
Record Type: Photo
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2017.019.001 - Print, Photographic
A black and white photograph copy (mounted) of the First Congregational Chapel exterior - 37 Main Street. It is 11" wide and 7" high. Photograph circa mid 1920's.
Record Type: Photo
