__NOTOC__ Grace Church (1835–1865) was an Episcopal church in Boston, Massachusetts, located in Beacon Hill, on Temple Street.Boston Directory. 1862 The church operated for 30 years. Ministers included Thomas M. Clark (1836–1843);Roberts. History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, now called, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts: 1637-1888, Volume 3. Boston: A. Mudge & Son, 1898 Clement Moore Butler (1844–1847); and Charles Mason (1848–1862; d.1862).A.P. Peabody. Memoir of Rev. Charles Mason, D.D. Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1863
Architect William Washburn designed the church building in 1835. In 1851, Isaac Smith Homans said:The interior is beautifully painted by M. Bragaldi. The exterior of the building, including the towers (which are of the octagonal form), is 87 feet; breadth 68 feet. The basement is divided into 2 large rooms for lectures, Sunday-schools, &c. The height from the main floor above the basement to the centre of the main arch, is 45 feet; an arch is thrown over each of the side galleries, which is intersected by arches opposite the three windows on each side, and resting on each side upon four cluster columns of 24 inches diameter.Homans. Sketches of Boston, Past and Present. 1851.
In 1865 the building was "sold to the Methodist Episcopal Society of North Russell Street."Winsor. The memorial history of Boston: including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, Volume 3. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882 __NOTOC__
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Further reading American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, v.10, no.2, June 1836