1. UUA Headquarters, 25 Beacon St. (1925-1927)
Present building dedicated April, 1927. Located on land once owned
by John Hancock.
2. Former Skinner House, 8 Mt. Vernon Pl. (1832-1834)
Former Home of Beacon Press, 1962-1998. Named for Universalist theologian
and minister Clarence R. Skinner. Beacon has moved to
41 Mt. Vernon St.
3. Pickett House, 7 Mt. Vernon Pl. (1832-1834)
A UUA guest house purchased in 1981 and named for former UUA
president O. Eugene Pickett.
4. Eliot House, 6 Mt. Vernon Pl. (1832-1834)
Purchased by the American Unitarian Association in 1959 and named
for former AUA president Frederick May Eliot. Now a UUA guest house.
5. Massachusetts State House, Beacon and Park Streets (1795)
Original red-brick structure designed by Unitarian architect
Charles Bulfinch. Statues on the law are of orator Daniel Webster and
educator Horace Mann, both Unitarians. The dome was cast by Unitarian Paul Revere.
6. Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, Boston Common
This sculpture by Saint-Gaudens shows the Yankee commander - a
Unitarian - leading the first black regiment in America during the Civil
War.
7. Ticknor Mansion, 9 Park St. (1803-1804)
Once home of George Ticknor, former professor at Harvard and a
Unitarian.
8. Former site: American Unitarian Association, "old" 25 Beacon
St.,
before the number moved down the street. AUA headquarters from
1886-1925. Present structure: Bellevue Building, 21 Beacon St.
9. Universalist Church of America headquarters, 1933-1961, 16
Beacon St. (Chester Harding House, 1808)
A gift to the AUA in 1919, it served as a Unitarian annex building
until 1933, then became Universalist headquarters. Present use: home of
Boston Bar Association.
10. Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon St. (1847-1849)
Founded in 1807 by a group composed mostly of Unitarian ministers,
including William Emerson, father of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Present
building is on the site of Ralph Waldo Emerson's boyhood home.
11. Music Hall, Hamilton Place, off Tremont St.(1852)
Theodore Parker preached to thousands at the Old Music Hall during
the 1850s. Present use: Orpheum Theater.
22. Tremont House, 275 Tremont St.
The site of the official merger of the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association in 1961.
23. Former site: Hollis Street Church, Tremont and Hollis Streets
Thomas Starr King was minister of the Hollis Street Church, as was John Pierpoint (grandfather
of John Pierpoint Morgan). Present structure: parking garage.
27. UU Urban Ministry (Benevolent Fraternity), 110 Arlington St.
Founded in 1834, the Fraternity is an association of fifty-one greater Boston UU churches serving the community
through a variety of service programs.
29. Arlington Street Church, 355 Boylston St. (1859-1861)
The Federal Street Church changed its name to the Arlington Street
Church when it moved here.
This was the first building in the Back Bay. A statue of William Ellery
Channing stands on the edge of the
Public Garden, facing the Arlington Street Church.
35. Statue of Edward Everett Hale, Public Gardens
Hale was the leading Unitarian minister and writer in Boston at the
turn of
this century, and author of The Man Without a Country.
36. Fifth Universalist Church, 76 Warrenton St. (1838-1839)
Asher Benjamin built this building for the Fifth Universalist
Church. Later this
congregation was known as the Shawmut Universalist Society, and then the
Every-Day Church - for its
program of social work. One of its ministers, George L. Perin, was the
founder of the Franklin Square
House and the first Universalist missionary to Japan. Present use:
Charles Playhouse
37. King's Chapel House and Parsonage, 63-64 Beacon St.
(1820s)
Office space, meeting rooms, and a miniature chapel for the
congregation and ministers of King's Chapel.
38. William F. Schultz House, 53 Beacon St. (1855)
The UUA purchased this four-story office building in 1987. It was
designed as a residence in 18755 by Nathaniel
J. Bradlee. Over the years it has housed an architect, a publisher, a
law firm, and an insurance agency. This building is being sold and the
UUA staff offices located there are being moved to the new building on
Mt. Vernon St. (see 45).
39. Francis Parkman House, 50 Chestnut St. (1830s)
The noted American historian and Unitarian lived here from 1865 to
1893
40. Charles Street Meeting House, 70 Charles St. (1804)
Asher Benjamin designed this building for a Baptist congregation. It
became a center of abolitionist
activity in the mid-nineteenth century. From 1949 to 1979 it was a UU
church. Present use: office and commercial space.
41. Louisa May Alcott House, 10 Louisberg Sq. (1835)
Louisa May Alcott purchased this house after literary fame. Her
father, Bronson, died here.
42. William Ellery Channing House, 83 Mount Vernon St. (1835)
The great prophet of Unitarianism had this house built for his
family in 1835, and lived here until his death in 1842.
43. Julia Ward Howe House, 32 Mount Vernon St. (1822)
Unitarians Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of the Perkins Institute for
the Blind, and Julia Ward Howe, reformer and
author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", purchased this house in the
1870s.
44. Old West Church, 131 Cambridge St. (1806)
Jonathan Mayhew, one of the earliest preachers of a liberalized
Christianity, was minister here in the mid-eighteenth century. The
present building was designed by Asher Benjamin. Charles Lowell, father
of James Russell Lowell, was minister
here for over fifty years. Present use: United Methodist congregation.
45. 41 Mt. Vernon St.
UUA program departments occupy the top three floors of the building. Beacon Press occupies the three lower floors.
