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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 17
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PRELIMINARY HISTORY. 9 of tower, above the foundation walls, 2 feet 3 inches thick 35 feet upward, then 2 feet thick 27 feet up- ward to hell-deck, then 1 foot and 6 inches thick 25 feet upward to top of stone- work. The foundation walls of the building proper are 3 feet G inches thick at bottom, and 2 feet 10 inches at top ; the side and front walls 2 feet thick from top of foundation walls to the height of two feet above the tops of the win- dows ; then 1 foot 9 inches thick to eaves. The rear wall, including recess, 1 foot G inches thick. All the interstices in the walls as they were being Ijuilt, were tilled with soft mortar or cement. The mason-work was let out by the contractor to Messrs. Perkins & Hine ; the wood-work to Nicholas Countryman. The whole was done to the entire satisfaction of the parties interested, and unless destroyed by fire or some other extraordinary visitation, the building will stand for ages. Scarcely had the main edifice been opened for pub- lic worship, on the last Sabbath in June, 1852, when there was found to be an urgent necessity for smaller rooms, suitable for conference and prayer meetings, and for the Sabbath School, which had been trans- ferred to this church from the Mount Pleasant school- house. Accordingly the Chapel, fronting on Lib- erty street, directly in the rear of the Church, was projected and built by day's work, 57 feet by 35, from outside to outside, in the same style and of the same kind of material as the main edifice. Both buildings are rigidly plain, but the eftect is, to give 1-
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0017. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 17. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n19/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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