Comments on: What church is this in 1950? http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/ Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Shawn Koester http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46726 Shawn Koester Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:14:34 +0000 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46726 Doug and Scott,. I managed to track down the Norfield Congregational website at http://www.norfield.org/ws/ Doug and Scott,. I managed to track down the Norfield Congregational website at http://www.norfield.org/ws/

]]> By: Scott Wells http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46660 Scott Wells Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:26:57 +0000 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46660 Thanks Doug. I am very, very impressed. Thanks Doug. I am very, very impressed.

]]> By: Doug Drown http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46655 Doug Drown Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:06:54 +0000 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46655 Mystery solved: It's the meetinghouse of the Norfield Congregational Church in Weston, Connecticut. The church doesn't have a website; I found an old photo of it by accident after days of searching on the Web during my leisure time. I get obsessive over things like this --- I love solving puzzles. Mystery solved: It’s the meetinghouse of the Norfield Congregational Church in Weston, Connecticut. The church doesn’t have a website; I found an old photo of it by accident after days of searching on the Web during my leisure time. I get obsessive over things like this — I love solving puzzles.

]]> By: Doug Drown http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46630 Doug Drown Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:12:15 +0000 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46630 Boy, you've got me on this one. I pored through two photo books on New England churches and meetinghouses. Nada. Then I went to the Web and did three MSN searches, one for New England meetinghouses, one for Congregational churches in New England, and one for Unitarian churches in New England. There were a couple hundred photos, and nothing matched. I'm baffled. There are three things that make the building in this photo distinctive: that the bell tower reaches all the way to the ground (which would probably make it predate most of Asher Benjamin's buildings and those of his ilk), the absence of a clock in the tower, and that it has only one door, in the base of the tower. There is a possibility that this building is now gone. I'm wondering if that's why we can't find it. Boy, you’ve got me on this one. I pored through two photo books on New England churches and meetinghouses. Nada. Then I went to the Web and did three MSN searches, one for New England meetinghouses, one for Congregational churches in New England, and one for Unitarian churches in New England. There were a couple hundred photos, and nothing matched. I’m baffled.

There are three things that make the building in this photo distinctive: that the bell tower reaches all the way to the ground (which would probably make it predate most of Asher Benjamin’s buildings and those of his ilk), the absence of a clock in the tower, and that it has only one door, in the base of the tower.

There is a possibility that this building is now gone. I’m wondering if that’s why we can’t find it.

]]> By: Ms. Theologian http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46618 Ms. Theologian Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:03:26 +0000 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46618 I checked and it's not Harvard or Littleton, which were my guesses. I checked and it’s not Harvard or Littleton, which were my guesses.

]]> By: The Eclectic Cleric http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46616 The Eclectic Cleric Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:09:27 +0000 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46616 This DOES look an awful lot like the First Religious Society in Carlisle, but of course the First Religious Society in Carlisle looks an awful lot like an awful lot of other white clapboard Congregational churches in New England: that's part of Carlisle's faux-rural over the river and through the woods from Walden Pond charm. Of course, it's also hard to say how much the Meetinghouse itself may have changed in half a century. I'm still pretty certain though that this is some other church. This DOES look an awful lot like the First Religious Society in Carlisle, but of course the First Religious Society in Carlisle looks an awful lot like an awful lot of other white clapboard Congregational churches in New England: that’s part of Carlisle’s faux-rural over the river and through the woods from Walden Pond charm. Of course, it’s also hard to say how much the Meetinghouse itself may have changed in half a century. I’m still pretty certain though that this is some other church.

]]> By: PeaceBang http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46610 PeaceBang Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:04:01 +0000 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/what-church-is-this-in-1950/#comment-46610 Is that Carlisle, MA? The photo of the minister is too blurry for me to see very well. Is that Carlisle, MA? The photo of the minister is too blurry for me to see very well.

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