MyDorchester Photo Contest

A fall flashback photo... Can you be the first to identify where in Dorchester this photograph was taken? Be the first to identify and have your name entered into a drawing for a free print!

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This week's illustration is a photo of the first building used by the Third Church in Dorchester.

 

"The third church society in Dorchester was a Unitarian congregation that split off from Second Church in 1813. The Third Religious Society was formed as a result of a rupture between a portion of the congregation of the Second Church and their pastor, the Rev. Dr. Codman. The first meeting was held on May 6, 1813, in the Dorchester Reading Room, the back room of a barber shop which had been furnished as a reading room for the people in the vicinity of the end of Dorchester Avenue at Lower Mills. At a second meeting in August, the members called themselves "The Proprietors of the New South Meeting-House." The Second Church was known as the South Meeting-House, and the Third was now called "The New South." Its official name is The Third Religious Society in Dorchester."

The Illustration of the Day is brought to us by the Dorchester Atheneum, if you would like to be added to the list, please contact Earl Taylor by email or call 781-272-6700