First Baptist Church in Boston (sixth) is built.

Architect: H.H. Richardson. Originally the Brattle Square Church (fourth) and designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, it is located at 110 Commonwealth Avenue (240 Clarendon Street). The campanile by Frederic Bartholdi is completed in 1877, and the figures on its four friezes are said to be modeled after Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Sumner, Garibaldi, and possibly John LaFarge and Richardson. It is sometimes called the “Church of the Holy Bean Blowers,” because of the trumpet-blowing angels on the corners. After the congregation dissolves, the building is purchased by the First Baptist Church, which meets here for the first time on October 29, 1882. A balcony and three rose windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany are subsequently added, as well as an adjacent chapel, which is completed on February 7, 1883.