Park Street Church is dedicated.

Architect: Peter Banner. Designed in the Federal style, it is located at 1 Park Street. The first Trinitarian congregation in Boston, it was formed, partly in response to the rise in Unitarianism by members of Old South Church on February 27, 1809, and met initially in a home on Bowdoin Street. Edward Griffin is the first minister. The church is later called Brimstone Corner, either because of gunpowder reputedly stored in its basement during the War of 1812 or the fiery sermons preached by ministers like the Rev. Lyman Beecher. A bell is installed in the tower in 1819 and a weather vane in 1859, and the building is the tallest in Boston until 1867. Henry James subsequently calls it “The most interesting mass of brick and mortar in America,” and the building is restored between 1983 and 1986.