{"nrhp_refnum":"97000920","name":"Brighton Evangelical Congregational Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"404-410 Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.34865607000006,"lon":-71.1555836652925,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Colonial Revival church and matching parsonage at 404-410 Washington Street in Brighton Center, Boston, both completed in 1922 on the site of an earlier church that burned in 1921. The church was designed by Blackall, Clapp, and Whittemore and built by C.S. Allen & Company.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is an excellent local example of Colonial Revival church architecture and a rare example of work by the Boston firm Blackall, Clapp, and Whittemore. It is also significant in social history as a long-standing gathering place and landmark in the growing Brighton Center. It represents the second congregation founded in Brighton and the early nineteenth-century split between Evangelical and Unitarian Congregationalists.","narrative":"This church and parsonage at the corner of Washington and Dighton Streets in Brighton Center, Boston, date from 1922. The two-story Colonial Revival church is faced in red brick laid in Flemish bond, with a Doric portico and a three-tier tower and steeple rising about 70 feet. It was built on the foundation of a Gothic Revival church destroyed by fire in January 1921, and it is the third church the congregation has put on the site, where worship began in 1827. A matching brick parsonage stands to the west. Blackall, Clapp, and Whittemore of Boston designed the complex, and C.S. Allen & Company built it. The social hall, stage and basement banquet room supported lectures, plays, scout activities, dinners and charitable work. Membership reached 402 in early 1922 and 447 by 1940. The property is considered locally significant for its architecture and for its role as a social center and landmark in a changing Brighton.","period_of_significance":"1922-1946","architect_builder":"Architect: Blackall, Clapp, and Whittemore; Builder: C.S. Allen & Company","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Church and parsonage remain in religious use; the parsonage and church are described as retaining original integrity, and the church is relatively unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.109575-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/7970/63797002/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/97000920.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000920/a0a5e112a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000920/a0a5e112a2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brighton_Evangelical_Congregational_Church_Boston_MA.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:Brighton_Evangelical_Congregational_Church_Boston_MA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01000088","name":"Brighton Center Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/brighton-center-historic-district-01000088/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797002","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Allston_Congregational_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4967639"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/brighton-evangelical-congregational-church-97000920/"}