Trinity Church (second) is built.

Architect: George Brimmer. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, it is located near today’s 26 Summer Street. The stone building is destroyed in the Great Fire of 1872. Four years earlier, however, the bishop of Massachusetts wrote that the church needed to move because “business had moved up from the harbor; blocks and shops surrounded the church; dwelling houses had been torn down and gardens desolated. Most of the parishioners had moved . . . [and] the church and such equipment as there was were unattractive and inconvenient.” After meeting in Huntington Hall for five years, a new church building (third) is erected in 1877.* Phillips Brooks serves as pastor from 1869 to 1891.