Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley (1911)
Wight, Charles Albert, 1856- · [Chicopee Falls, Mass., The Rich print · leaf 205
sides,with singers fronting the pulpit. Over the pulpit wasa sounding board of graceful conical form, and thepulpit, being reached by a flight of perhaps a dozensteps, was so high that the elastic sounding board wasessential to keep the theological arguments from fail-ing of their mission by being… … ■■■-- ■■ — _^^^,,,,^,^^t,gt,udtmmaMmM heads of the audience. The people came from milesaround to attend the services. The comer stone of the second meeting house,the fine Colonial structure now standing on ChicopeeStreet, was laid May 12, 1825, and the building wasdedicated January 4, 1826. The…
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