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Coordinates: 42°15′11″N 71°49′5″W

South Unitarian Church


The South Unitarian Church is an historic church building at
South Unitarian
888 Main Street in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester,
Massachusetts. The Romanesque Revival building was designed U.S. National Register of Historic
by Earle & Fisher and was built by the Norcross Brothers in 1894 Places
for the South Unitarian Society, established in 1890. The building
is made of sandstone blocks, laid in courses alternating in width.
The front (eastern) facade features a high pitched gable, with two
rows of three windows, then a pair of windows topped by a large
half-round window To the right is the church entrance, a smaller
projecting gable section with a doorway recessed in a round
archway, topped by three smaller windows. To the rear behind
the entrance is a square tower with a partial half-round side
tower.[2]

On March 5, 1980, it was added to the National Register of


Historic Places as South Unitarian.[1] At the time of its listing it
housed an Armenian Apostolic congregation;[2] it presently
houses a Spanish Seventh Day Adventist Congregation.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in
southwestern Worcester, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in
Worcester County, Massachusetts

References
1. "National Register Information System" (https://npgaller
y.nps.gov/NRHP). National Register of Historic Places.
National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "NRHP nomination for South Unitarian Church" (http://
mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=WOR.1312).
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved Location 888 Main St.,
2014-01-21. Worcester,
Massachusetts

External links Coordinates 42°15′11″N


71°49′5″W
Current congregation website (http://www.worcestercen Area less than one acre
tralspanish22.adventistchurchconnect.org/)
Built 1894
Architect Earle & Fisher
Architectural style Romanesque
MPS Worcester MRA (h
ttps://npgallery.np
s.gov/NRHP/GetA
sset/NRHP/64000
304_text)
NRHP reference # 80000550 (https://
npgallery.nps.gov/
AssetDetail/NRIS/
80000550)[1]
Added to NRHP March 5, 1980

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