First Unitarian Society in Newton

Newton, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Phone: +1 617 527 3203

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The First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton, located at 1326 Washington Street in West Newton, Massachusetts, is a prominent ecclesiastical complex designed by Ralph Adams Cram and dedicated in 1906 (cornerstone laid in 1905). Cram's signature Gothic Revival style dominates the main church, which features buttressed walls and a blocky square tower crowned with crenellations and spires. Surrounding the church is an enclosed courtyard formed by auxiliary structures—an office wing, banquet hall, and parish house—rendered in Elizabethan Revival with brick first floors and half-timbered upper levels. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. designed the grounds. The building contains a stained glass window honoring Massachusetts education pioneers Horace Mann and Cyrus Peirce, both parishioners of the society, which was organized in 1848. The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and remains one of West Newton's oldest buildings.