St. Mark's Methodist Church (Brookline, Massachusetts)

St. Mark's Methodist Church is a historic church building at 90 Park Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The church was built in 1892 to a design by George Clough in a Romanesque style. The building, vacated by its dwindling congregation in 1968, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1] It has since been converted into condominiums.[2]

St. Mark's Methodist Church
Location90 Park St., Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°20′21″N 71°7′31″W
Area1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Built1892
ArchitectGeorge Albert Clough
Architectural styleRomanesque
NRHP reference No.76000268[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 17, 1976

Description and history

The former St. Mark's Methodist Church building is located in a residential area just southwest of Coolidge Corner, at the southwest corner of Vernon and Park Streets. It is set just south of the triangular St. Mark's Park, amid 20th-century apartment high-rises. It is a roughly rectangular masonry structure, built out of rubblestone trimmed with yellow sandstone. Its main facade faces north to the park, flanked by a squat square tower on the left, and a short square projection on the right. Set in the main roof gable in between is a large rose window. The tower and right-side projection each have a rounded corner topped by a conical roof. The main entrance is through the base of the tower. The long sides of the church each have five round-arch windows, leading to the transept area, where there are gabled projections on either side.[3]

The church was built in 1891-94 for the Methodist Society of Brookline, which retained Boston architect George Clough for its design. The original design of the church called for a carillon tower to be constructed on top of the right side projection, but the area's landfill geology was insufficiently stable to support it. The church was used by this congregation until 1968, when it moved to facilities shared with two other Brookline congregations.[3] The building has since been converted to residential use.

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Hardwicke, Greer (1998). Brookline. Arcadia Publishing. p. 87.
  3. "NRHP nomination for St. Mark's Methodist Church". National Archive. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
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