Local Church Historical Files. Massachusetts.

File materials with local histories, sometimes containing a brief history, photograph, or newsclippings.
Collected by the New England Methodist Historical Society, and the New Hampshire Methodist Historical Society (which covered the northeastern part of the state).

See also Church records, which also sometimes contain historical sketches.

Folders listed as received, subject to re-arrangment.

General

Picture postcards of Methodist Churches in Massachusetts.
Slides of churches in Massachusetts, from Rev. David W. Bell.

By Town

Achusnet
Acton (St. Matthew’s)
Adams
Agawam
Allston
Amesbury
Amherst
Amherst (Wesley)
Arlington (Calvary)
Arlington Heights
Ashburnham
Ashland
Ashley Falls
Athol (Starrett Memorial)
Attleboro
Auburndale (Centenary)
Ayres Village (see Haverhill, MA)
Ballardville
Barnstable
Belchertown
Belmont
Berkeley
Berlin
Bernardston
Beverly (Avenue)
Blandford–Granville
Bondsville
Boston (Barham Memorial)
Boston (Bromfield Street)
Boston (Charles Street AME)
Boston (Church of All Nations)
Boston (Church of Our Saviour)
Boston (City Mission)
Boston (City Point)
Boston (Columbus Ave AME Zion)
Boston (Community Church of Boston, non-Methodist)
Boston (Copley)
Boston (First Norwegian and Danish)
Boston (Fourth)
Boston (Italian Methodist Church of Our Saviour)
Boston (Italian Mission)
Boston (King’s Chapel, non-Methodist)
Boston (Mariner’s House)
Boston (Medical Mission Dispensary)
Boston (Merrimac Mission)
Boston (Methodist Alley)
Boston (Morgan Memorial)
Boston (Old South, non-Methodist)
Boston (Old West)
Boston (Park Street, non-Methodist)
Boston (People’s Temple)
Boston (Revere Street)
Boston (St. John’s)
Boston (St. John’s Lithuanian)
Boston (Suffolk Street)
Boston (Tremont Temple, non-Methodist)
Boston (Trinity, non-Methodist)
Boston (Union)
Boston (Wesley)
Boston (Winthrop Street)
Bourne
Bradford (People’s)
Braintree (Heritage)
Brewster (Northside)
Bridgewater
Brighton (Oak Square)
Brockton (Central)
Brockton (Emmanuel Swedish)
Brockton (Franklin)
Brockton (Lithuanian)
Brockton (Pearl Street)
Brockton (Pentecost)
Brockton (South Street)
Brookfield
Brookline (St. Mark’s)
Bryantville
Byfield (Community)
Cambridge (Epworth)
Cambridge (Grace)
Cambridge (Harvard Street)
Cambridge (Trinity)
Cambridgeport (Cottage Street)
Campello
Charlemont
Charlestown (Monument Square)
Charlestown (St. John’s)
Charlestown (Trinity)
Charlestown, North
Charlton
Charlton City
Chatham
Chelmsford (Aldersgate)
Chelsea (Mount Bellingham)
Chelsea (Walnut Street)
Cherry Valley
Cheshire
Chester
Chicopee (Central)
Chicopee (Faith)
Chicopee Falls
Chilmark
Chiltonville
Cliftondale
Clinton
Cochituate
Colraine
Concord
Cottage City
Cotuit
Danvers
Dedham (St. John’s)
Dennis (Northside)
Dorchester
Dorchester (Baker Memorial)
Dorchester (First)
Dorchester (Highlands)
Dorchester (Greenwood Memorial)
Dorchester (Howard Avenue)
Dorchester (Parkman Street)
Dorchester (Stanton Avenue)
Dudley
Dwight
East Abington
East Blackstone
East Boston (Bethel)
East Boston (Meridian Street)
East Boston (Orient Heights)
East Boston (Saratoga Street)
East Boston (St. Paul’s Italian)
East Colrain
East Dedham
East Douglas
East Longmeadow
East Longmeadow (First)
East Mansfield
East Natick
East Pepperell
East Saugus
East Saugus (First/Community)
East Templeton
East Wareham
East Wareham (Evangelical EUB)
East Weymouth
Eastham
Easthampton
Easthampton (Providence)
Edgartown
Enfield
Essex
Everett (First)
Everett (Glendale)
Fairhaven, Chicopee (Faith)
Fall River
Fall River (Brayton)
Fall River (Italian)
Fall River (St. Paul’s)
Fall River (Summerfield)
Fall River (Union)
Falmouth
Feeding Hills
Fitchburg
Forest Hills (Upham Memorial)
Framingham (Wesley)
Framingham, Saxonville (First)
Franklin
Gardner
Gill
Gloucester (Bay View)
Gloucester (Elm Street)
Gloucester (Prospect Street)
Gloucester (Riverdale)
Gloucester (Scandinavian, Swedish Mission)
Gloucester, East
Granby
Graniteville
Graniteville (Old Beech Hill)
Great Barrington and Housatonic Valley Camp Meetings
Greenfield
Hamilton and Essex
Hampden
Hampden (Federated Community)
Harwich, East Harwich, South Harwich
Haverhill (Ayres Village)
Haverhill (Grace)
Haverhill (People’s)
Haverhill (South Christian)
Heath
Hebronville
Hingham
Holliston
Holyoke
Hopkinton
Hubbardston
Hudson
Hull
Hyannis
Hyde Park
Ipswich
Jamaica Plain (First)
Jamaica Plain (St. Andrew’s)
Jamaica Plain (St. Paul’s)
Jamaica Plain (Upham Memorial)
Lambert’s Cove
Laurel Park, Northhampton
Lawrence
Lawrence (Central)
Lawrence (St. Mark’s)
Lawrence (St. Paul’s)
Lawrence (Vine Street)
Lee (First)
Leicester
Lenox Dale
Leominster
Lexington
Lexington (St. John’s Korean)
Leyden
Lock’s Village
Long Plain
Lowell (Central)
Lowell (Centralville)
Lowell (Church of All Nations)
Lowell (Highland Union)
Lowell (St. Paul’s)
Lowell (Swedish)
Lowell (Worthen Street)
Ludlow
Ludlow (St. Paul’s)
Lunenberg
Lynn (Boston Street)
Lynn (Broadway)
Lynn (First)
Lynn (Highland)
Lynn (Lake Shore Park)
Lynn (Lakeside)
Lynn (Lynn Mission)
Lynn (Maple Street)
Lynn (South Street)
Lynn (St. Luke’s)
Lynn (St. Paul’s)
Lynn (Trinity)
Lynn (Wesley)
Malden
Malden (Centre)
Malden (Faulkner)
Malden (Linden)
Malden (Maplewood)
Malden (Robinson)
Marblehead
Marion
Marlboro
Marshfield
Mattapan
Maynard
Medford (First)
Medford (Hillside)
Medford (St. John’s)
Medford (Trinity)
Medford (Wellington)
Melrose (First)
Merrimackport
Methuen (First)
Methuen (Oaklands)
Methuen (St. George’s Ebenezer Primitive Methodist)
Middleboro
Milford
Millbury
Millville
Milton (Parkway)
Monson
Mundale and Granville
Nahant
Nantucket
Natick (Fisk)
Needham
Needham (Carter Memorial)
Needham Heights
Neponset
New Bedford
New Bedford (Allen Street)
New Bedford (County Street)
New Bedford (Elm Street)
New Bedford (First Portuguese)
New Bedford (Howard Street)
New Bedford (Pleasant Street)
New Bedford (Seaman’s Bethel)
New Ipswich
Newbury
Newburyport
Newton
Newton (Newton Center)
Newton (Newton Corner)
Newton Highlands (Cline Memorial)
Newton Lower Falls (Perrin Memorial)
Newton Upper Falls (First)
Newtonville
North Adams
North Andover
North Attleboro
North Boston Korean (Methuen, MA)
North Brookfield
North Dana
North Dighton
North Grafton
North Quincy (Atlantic)
North Reading (Aldersgate)
North Stoughton
Northampton
Northampton (Christ)
Northampton (First)
Northampton (Florence)
Northfield, East Northfield
Norwood
Norwood (United)
Oak Bluffs (Trinity)
Oakdale
Onset
Orange
Orleans
Osterville
Oxford
Peabody
Pepperell
Petersham (Mission)
Phillipston
Pittsfield
Pittsfield (First)
Plainville
Plymouth (Memorial)
Plymouth (North)
Princeton
Provincetown
Provincetown (Centenary)
Provincetown (Center)
Quincy (Atlantic)
Randolph
Reading (Old South)
Rehoboth
Revere
Rockport
Roslindale
Roxbury (First)
Roxbury (First Swedish)
Roxbury (Walnut Park/Egleston Square)
Roxbury (Roxbury Rescue Mission)
Russell
Sagamore
Salem
Salem (Lafayette Street)
Salem (Wesley)
Salisbury
Sandwich
Saugus (Center)
Saugus (Cliftondale)
Saugus (Dorr Memorial)
Saugus, East
Saxonville/Framingham
Scituate
Scituate Harbor
Sharon
Sheffield
Shelburne Falls (William Butler Memorial/Trinity)
Shrewsbury
Somerville (Broadway)
Somerville (College Avenue)
Somerville (First)
Somerville (Flint Street)
South Athol
South Boston (Barham Memorial/Dorchester Street)
South Boston (Broadway)
South Boston (Centenary)
South Boston (City Point)
South Boston (Church of our Saviour)
South Boston (St. John’s)
South Boston (Wesley)
South Braintree
South Hadley
South Hadley Falls
South Harwich
South Middleboro
South Royalston
South Somerset
South Tewksbury
South Truro
South Truro (Pine Grove Cemetery)
South Walpole
South Worthington
South Yarmouth
Southbridge (First)
Southampton
Southville (Federated)
Spencer
Springfield
Springfield (Asbury/First)
Springfield (Florence Street)
Springfield (Grace)
Springfield (Liberty)
Springfield (North End)
Springfield (St. James’)
Springfield (Swedish/Bay Street)
Springfield (Trinity)
Springfield (Wesley)
Stoneham (St. James’)
Stoughton
Stow (Gleasondale/Rock Bottom)
Sudbury
Swampscott (Church of the Redeemer)
Taunton (First/Grace)
Taunton (North Dighton)
Tewksbury
Topsfield
Townsend
Turners Falls (Grace)
Upton
Uxbridge
Vineyard Haven
Waban (Waban School)
Wakefield
Wales
Walpole
Waltham (First/Asbury)
Waltham (Immanuel)
Ware
Warren (Federated)
Watertown
Wayland (Community/Cochituate)
Webster
Wellesley (Christ)
Wellfleet
West Agawam (Flower Memorial)
West Bridgewater (Cochesett)
West Brookfield (Whitefield)
West Chelmsford
West Dennis
West Fitchburg
West Medford (Trinity)
West Medway
West Pelham
West Quincy
West Roxbury (Washington Boulevard)
West Roxbury (Daniel Dorchester Memorial)
West Roxbury (Dorchester Avenue)
West Somerville (Sycamore Street/Park Avenue)
West Springfield (First)
West Springfield (Mittineague)
West Warren
West Worthington
Westboro
Westfield (First)
Westford
Weston
Westport Point
Weymouth
Wheatfield
Whitinsville
Whitman
Wilbraham
Wilbraham (Academy)
Williamsburg
Williamstown
Winchendon
Winchester (Crawford Memorial)
Winthrop
Woburn
Wollaston
Worcester (Aldersgate)
Worcester (Church of the Covenant)
Worcester (Coral Street)
Worcester (Epworth, Thomas Street, Second Swedish)
Worcester (Grace)
Worcester (Laurel Street)
Worcester (Park Avenue)
Worcester (Quinsigamond, First Swedish))
Worcester (Trinity)
Worcester (Trowbridge Memorial)
Worcester (Wesley)