The Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven

Good Morning may you have a good day

I wanted to share something a bit different today as I have been sharing a lot of photos from the same spots recently, so looked through my edited photos and noticed I had some shots of the Unitarian Memorial church in Fairhaven and thought i would share these today , first a little bit about the church

The Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven was built, financed and donated to the Unitarians in 1904 by Henry H. Rogers in memory of his mother, Mary Eldredge Huttleston. The church was designed by Boston architect Charles Brigham in a Gothic Revival style.[4] It is one thousand and fourteen feet (309 m) in height, one hundred feet (30 m) long in body and fifty-three feet (16 m) wide. The nave is thirty-two feet (9.8 m) wide and seventy-one feet (22 m) long. The main aisle is sixty-two feet (19 m) long and six feet (1.8 m) wide. The church, parish house and former parsonage (now Harrop Center) of the Unitarian Society are so placed as to form three sides of a quadrangle, set among well-kept lawns and shrubbery. Granite (locally quarried) with Indiana limestone decorative carvings dominate the exterior while marble and limestone carvings dominate the interior. All stonework artistry was created by forty-five Italian craftsmen brought to Fairhaven by Rogers.

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Whatever angle you look at the church the detail is amazing

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Whether it is the masonry work

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the day I was there i walked all around it as these shots show

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And I am clearly not in a good day for coming up with things to say LOL

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Isnt it so grand and beautiful, they sure built with style back then, Now I am a religious person, although not tied to any particular faith or church at the moment, but when I see this and other grand churches and cathedrals around the world it makes me think, how much money they must have spent on building these and couldn't that money perhaps have bene better spent helping the less fortunate in their community

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And a last shot to finish off the post

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And that’s all folks

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