Charles Street Meeting House is dedicated.

Originally the Third Baptist Church in Boston, it is patterned after designs by Benjamin Asher and located is patterned after designs by Benjamin Asher and located is located at today’s 121 Mount Vernon Street (70 Charles Street). The congregation was established by former members of the First and Second Baptist Churches. Caleb Blood is the first minister. Speakers include Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. The building is purchased by the Charles Street A.M.E. Church in 1876,* and later used as an Albanian Orthodox Church. It is purchased by the Charles Street Meeting House Society in 1939, and by the Universalist Church of America in 1949* [Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in 1947-Tufts]. The building is renovated by John Sharratt Associates as the architect’s office and home and for other commercial use in 1982.