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ORM B-BUILDING AUG 0 7 1989 1318 AREA FORM NO. ASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION O BOYLSTON STREET OSTON, MA 02116 579 Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5*, black and white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. cetch Map: Draw map showing property's location relation to nearest cross streets and/or =ographical features. Indicate all buildings etween inventoried property and nearest itersection (s). dicate north Town Quincy, MA / MRA Address 155 Beale Street Historic Name Wollaston Unitarian Church (now St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox) Use: Present church Original church DESCRIPTION Date 1890-91 Source Baxter. The First Fifty Years... style Shingle Style Architect - Edwin J.
Lewis Exterior wall Fabric shingles, granite Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) parish house addition (1915)--see reverse Condition Good SEE ATTACHED MAP Moved no Date Acreage Less than one acre: 12,168 sq.ft. Setting _ The church is located at the base of Wollaston Hill on busy Beale Street. M REFERENCE_ 19/333,200 E/ 4,680, 860 N GS QUADRANGLE Boston South , MA ALE 1: 25,000 Recorded by Fannin and Lehner / J. Johnson Organization Quincy Historical Commission Date July 1, 1986/ May 1987 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) As a well-preserved example of Shingle Style church architecture, the Wollaston Unitarian Church is associated with the development of the Wollaston Heights neighborhood and retains integrity of design, materials, location, workmanship, feeling and association.
The church fulfills Criteria A and C and exception A of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. ARCHITECIURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commnity. SEE INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners: played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. SEE INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Assessors Records. Charles T. Baxter. The First Fifty Years of the Wollaston Unitarian Society, 1938. Quincy Patriot Ledger, Ocotober 5, 1964, p. 6; July 3, 1965; October 29, 1975.
INYENIURI FUKM CUNLLNUALLUN SAEEL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity: QUINCY, HA Form No: 589 Property Name: Wollaston Unitanan church Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - - 155 BEALE STREET WOLLASTON UNITARIAN CHURCH (now St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church) In 1887, a group of Wollaston citizens not wishing to travel to the First Parish Church (1828, NR) in Quincy Square, began to convene a Unitarian congregation in Wollaston. By 1890 the group had organized legally and in 1890 a committee was hired to raise funds to build a church. Erected the same year, the church construction was part of the development of the Wollaston Heights neighborhood in the late-19th century.
It was preceded by the building of two earlier neighborhood churches, the first Baptist Churcr of Wollaston, on Prospect Avenue (1873, # WH-543)* and the Methodist Church on Beale Street (now demolished). Serving the Wollaston community for over fifty years, the Wollaston Unitarian Church merged with the United First Parish Church in Quincy Square in 1960. The Wollaston church was purchased by St. Catherine's Church of the South Shore and was dedicated as such in 1962. Staple to Inventory form at botton INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMI SSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmmity: QUINCY Form No: 589 Property Name: Wollaston unitanun Church Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE - - 155 BEALE STREET WOLLASTON UNITARIAN CHURCH (now St.
Catherine's Greek Orthodox) Wollaston Unitarian Church is a well-preserved example of Shingle Style architecture applied to an ecclestiastical form. It is the only intact Shingle Style church in Quincy. style is reflected in the horizontal massing. multiple gables, irregular fenestration, and use of two walling materials, shingle on the second floor and rough granite blocks on the first level. A low sloping gabied slate roof emphasizes the horizontality of the square granite tower and an arched window set within a projecting shingled gable. The section west of the main gable houses a parish house added to the church in 1915. A wrought iron fence, erected after 1938, surrounds the property (noncontributing).
Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-900- (8-86) United States Department of the Interior NationalPark Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 AUG I 7 1989 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Quincy MRA Norfolk County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 71. White, Charles E., House intered in the National Register 72. Winfield House Entered in the Natlonal Regiatar Date/Signature forkeoper SelBagun 9pel89 Attest fo Keeper C seloreByun 2/50/19 Attest fukeeper SutruaBgua 9/21/69 73. Wollaston Branch, Thomas Crane Public Library intered in the National Register Attest fReeper AelmupAgun 0/20/69 74. Wollaston Fire Station entered in tha Mational Registar 75. Wollaston Theatre Entered in the Mational Register 76.
Wollaston Unitarian Church Attest fakeeper Almucgu /20/69 Attest Jakeopor lelmuBgu 980/+9 Attest 77. Baxter--King House Entered in the Mattonate red tet the National Registex Keeper AllasByun 110/5; .emle 78. Masonic Temple Entered in the Natiowel Reglster 79. Pettengill, C.F., House d gister Attest Keeper AulmuBgul 112/69 Attest Beeper AuluaByu d/13/04 Attest 80. Woodward Institute Keeper AuereBgun 1/2/0 Attest 81.
Smita, AC., dCo, nas Station Jabst Ruiler 2/23/5, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Wollaston Unitarian Church NAME: MULTIPLE NAME: Quincy MRA STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Norfolk DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 8/07/89 9/07/89 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 8/22/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 9/21/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89001318 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: PDIL: PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 9/20/89 DATE Intered in the Mational Register ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N CLASSIFICATION count resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION FUNCTION historic current DESCRIPTION architectural classification materials descriptive text SIGNIFICANCE Period Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception other BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage UTMS verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps USGS maps photographs presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date wollaston Unitarian 155 Beale St.
Quinc Julie Johnson Tuly Planning Dept, west 579 Wollaston Unitarian en 155 Beale St. Quincy JulieJohnson July planning Dept. North 579 PLAN 5178 WINTHROP SEE PLAN 5184 AVE BEALE 8632 Seve ir-pn. 100 Charles J areham elur E South Shore Hellenic Assxiata 12/68 ,a2 Donoranetar D/E BUSINESS FARRIN -1S mryc wickeide elen Anna .509 F Address 155 Beale Street Wollaston Unitarian Church QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS / MRA Assessors Map # 5116-7 1979 Scale: 1 inch equals 80 feet Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000289