First Methodist Church

Massachusetts, United States

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Located at 75 Walnut Street in Clinton, Massachusetts, the First Methodist Church is a historic stone and stucco structure designed by Boston architects Woodbury and Stuart. Begun in 1927 for a Methodist congregation established nearly a century earlier, the L-shaped, two-story building exemplifies Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival aesthetics, featuring uncoursed fieldstone on its ground floor, a steeply pitched slate roof, and twin entrances—one recessed behind a segmented stone arch on the main facade and another beneath a projecting gable. The ambitious original plan was never completed due to insufficient funding; only the community center and rectory were built, serving the congregation as sanctuary space until the 1980s. Following rehabilitation in 1988, the building now contains two residences and office space. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.