Charles Street Meeting House
The Charles Street Meeting House, is an
early-nineteenth-century historic church in Beacon Hill at
70 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The church has
been used over its history by several Christian
denominations and is a good example of reuse and adaptive
reuse, having recently been renovated into a mixed use
complex heavily featuring office use.
The church was built between 1804 to 1807 to the
designs by noted American architect Asher Benjamin for the
Third Baptist Church, which used the nearby Charles River
for its baptisms. In the years before the American Civil
War, it was a stronghold of the anti-slavery movement, and
was the site of notable speeches from anti-slavery activists
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell
Phillips, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth.
Photo 193, May 2012