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Methodist Church, Wellesley

A church in Wellesley, Massachusetts, named in 5 atlases between 1906 and 1919.

The line reading Unitarian Church in the 1906 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1906 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1906Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1912John's Roman Catholic Churchthe scanned index
1912St. Andrew's Episcopal Churchthe scanned index
1912Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1919John's Roman Catholic 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.

Methodist Church
John's Roman Catholic Church
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Unitarian Church

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Norfolk County was published 22 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church. - The first attempt to establish a Methodist church in Brookline was in the early part of 1873. Three persons from other places saw an opening for, and the need of, a Methodist Church where people could worship in their own way in this town. They united with two others and purchased the building formerly belonging to the Harvard Congregational society, at the corner of Washington and School Streets, for the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars. manner, and dedicated to public worship soon after, and the Rev. E. D. Winslow, of Newton, was appointed by the New England Conference as their pastor. Bishop Simpson preached the dedication sermon from 1 John iv. 19. A Sunday-school was connected with this church of about one hundred members.

Read the chapter on Brookline Town.

Named in the same survey

14 establishments

The surveyors walked Norfolk 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.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Trinity Episcopal Church in the 1906 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1906
The index line reading Police Station in the 1906 atlasPolice Stationice house1906
The index line reading Police Station in the 1906 atlasPolice Stationice house1906
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1906 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1906
The index line reading First Congregational Church in the 1912 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1912
The index line reading Drake School in the 1912 atlasDrake Schoolschool1912
The index line reading Grammar School in the 1912 atlasGrammar Schoolschool1912
The index line reading Kimbell High School in the 1912 atlasHigh Schoolschool1912
The index line reading Joseph Peabody Grammar School in the 1912 atlasJoseph Peabody Grammar Schoolschool1912
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1919 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1919
The index line reading Hayward, H. T., Satinette Mill in the 1919 atlasHayward, H. T., Satinette Millmill1919
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1919 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1919
The index line reading First Baptist Church, 8 in the 1919 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1919
The index line reading Stony Brook Mill in the 1919 atlasStony Brook Millmill1919

Other churches in the atlases

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

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Wellesley, 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.