King's Chapel
(617) 523-1749
64 Beacon St
(at Tremont Street)
Boston,
MA
02108
42.3582
-71.0601
Neighborhoods: Downtown, Central
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In Short
The first major stone building in America, King's Chapel was literally wrapped around the original wooden church on this site, which then was broken up and thrown out the windows when the new structure was completed. No expense was spared on the Georgian interior modeled on St. Martin in the Field Church in London. The pulpit is the oldest in continuous use in the United States and also the nation's first Unitarian church and the first church to use an organ.
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Fun Facts:
The groaning iron grate, by the way, is not a pit of ghosts. It's a ventilation shaft for the subway.
Know Before You Go:
The adjoining cemetery was the first in Boston; almost all of the early settlers are buried there, including passengers from the Mayflower, at least four colonial governors of Massachusetts, the patriot William Dawes and Elizabeth Pain, the model for the adulterous Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter."
