{"nrhp_refnum":"89001318","name":"Wollaston Unitarian Church","other_names":["St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"155 Beale St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.26414581500006,"lon":-71.02184318299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Shingle Style church at 155 Beale Street in the Wollaston Heights neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, built in 1890-91 to designs by Edwin J. Lewis. It is now St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church.","why_significant":"The church is described as a well-preserved example of Shingle Style architecture applied to an ecclesiastical form and the only intact Shingle Style church in Quincy. It is also tied to the late-19th-century development of the Wollaston Heights neighborhood and the founding of a Unitarian congregation there. It is argued to meet Criteria A and C and exception A at the local level.","narrative":"Built in 1890-91 at 155 Beale Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, this church was designed by Edwin J. Lewis for a Unitarian congregation that began meeting in Wollaston in 1887. Its construction formed part of the late-19th-century growth of the Wollaston Heights neighborhood, following earlier Baptist and Methodist churches nearby. The building is a Shingle Style design with horizontal massing, multiple gables, irregular window placement and two wall materials: shingles on the upper level and rough granite blocks below. A low slate roof, a short square granite tower and an arched window within a projecting shingled gable mark the main facade. A parish house was added on the west side in 1915. It is considered the only intact Shingle Style church in Quincy. The Unitarian society merged with the United First Parish Church in 1960, and St. Catherine's Church of the South Shore bought the building, dedicating it in 1962. A wrought iron fence added after 1938 is noncontributing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Edwin J. Lewis","architectural_style":"Shingle Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is stated as good. It is in present use as a church, St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox, and has not been moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.863529-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/26/7926/63792626/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001318.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001318/edca47e9a3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001318/edca47e9a3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wollaston_Unitarian_Church_Quincy_MA_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wollaston_Unitarian_Church_Quincy_MA_02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792626","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaston_Unitarian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8030326"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/wollaston-unitarian-church-89001318/"}