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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Congregational Church

A church in Hampden County, Massachusetts, named in 8 atlases between 1885 and 1918.

The line reading Congregational Church in the 1885 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1885 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1885Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1887Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1892Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1902Second Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1910Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1911Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1911Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1918Congregational Churchthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Congregational Church
Second Congregational Church

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Hampden County was published 1 year before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

A very fine Chippendale "chest on chest" loaned by Mr. J. J. Carl, collector and connoisseur of old furniture, added a great charm and dignity to this room. The family of Mrs. John R. Reed of Court Street loaned a portrait of Norman T. Leonard for many years a prominent attorney in Westfield. There were other fine pieces of furniture, old tables, etc., as well as portraits, candlesticks, fireplace fixtures, first oil lamps, the silver baptismal bowl of the First Congregational Church, date 1824, dainty snuff boxes, little boxes containing sand for blotting letters and wafers to seal letters in those old, old days. There was a pewter ink-well and goose quill, the old "toddy-glass" and mixer brought out to entertain the minister when he called way back before 1800.

Read the chapter on Westfield City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 28 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Hampden County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from. See all 28 in Hampden County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Advent Church in the 1885 atlasAdvent Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1885 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Church of the Holy Name in the 1885 atlasChurch of the Holy Namechurch1885
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1885 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1885
The index line reading High School in the 1885 atlasHigh Schoolschool1885
The index line reading Wells Opera House in the 1885 atlasOpera Houseopera house1885
The index line reading Ritter, W., Brewery in the 1885 atlasRitter, W., Brewerybrewery1885
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1885 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Bank Building in the 1887 atlasBank Buildingbank1887
The index line reading Ellis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Mill in the 1887 atlasEllis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Millmill1887
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Monson Hotel in the 1887 atlasMonson Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Reynold, R. M. & T., Woolen Mills in the 1887 atlasReynold, R. M. & T., Woolen Millsmill1887
The index line reading Cushman, S. F., Woolen Mills in the 1887 atlasWoolen Millsmill1887
The index line reading Hutehinson, L., Wagon Works in the 1892 atlasHutehinson, L., Wagon Worksworks1892
The index line reading Methodist Episc. Church in the 1892 atlasMethodist Episc. Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Public School in the 1892 atlasPublic Schoolsschool1892
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1892 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Bank Block in the 1902 atlasBank Blockbank1902
The index line reading Francis, R. B., Machine Shop in the 1902 atlasFrancis, R. B., Machine Shopmachine shop1902
The index line reading Grammar School in the 1902 atlasGrammar Schoolschool1902
The index line reading Mill Pond in the 1902 atlasMill Pondmill1902
The index line reading Massowanno Hotel in the 1902 atlasNassowanno Hotelhotel1902
The index line reading Week's Hotel in the 1902 atlasWeeks Hotelhotel1902

Other churches in the atlases

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Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Hampden County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Hampden County, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.