Church of the New Jerusalem/Swedenborg Chapel

The Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborg Chapel) is a one-and-a-half story, gable roofed stone building in the Late Gothic Revival style, designed by H. Langford Warren of the firm Warren, Smith & Biscoe, and constructed in 1901. It housed the Cambridge Swedenborg congregation, established in 1888.

The chapel was designed by Herbert Langford Warren (1857-1917), founder of the Harvard School of Architecture (now the Graduate School of Design) and an important figure in architectural pedagogy at a time when the architectural profession in the U.S. was in its formative period and when Boston was a major national center for architectural education and design. Stylistically, the Swedenborg Chapel is an early and, in Cambridge, rare example of the Late Gothic Revival style.

Photo 184, Sept 2010

Church of the New Jerusalem/Swedenborg Chapel

Photo 188, Sept 2010