Founded in 1854 as the Congregational Library Association by a large gathering of Congregational ministers and laymen, the library holds over 225,000 items documenting the history of one of the nation's oldest and most influencial religious tradition
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- Location:
- Boston, MA, 02108
- Phone:
- 617-523-0470
- Mon - Fri:
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Events
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- Treasures of the Pilgrims
Pratt Room
Wednesday, November 4 at 12:00pm - Congregationalism's Biggest Mi...
Congregational Library - Pratt Room
Wednesday, October 21 at 12:00pm - Walking Tour of Downtown Bosto...
Begins at Library
Wednesday, October 14 at 12:00pm - Treasures of the Congregationa...
Congregational Library
Wednesday, September 23 at 12:00pm - Beacon Hill Hawks
Congregational Library
Wednesday, August 19 at 12:00pm - Where did the Puritans go?
Congregational Library
Wednesday, July 29 at 12:00pm - Treasures of the Congregationa...
Pratt Room of Congregational Library
Wednesday, July 15 at 12:00pm - Tour of the Granary Burial Ground
Congregational Library
Thursday, June 18 at 12:00pm - Records Management and Preserv...
First Congregational Church of Reading
Thursday, May 7 at 6:30pm - Treasures of the Congregationa...
Congregational Library - Pratt Room
Wednesday, April 22 at 12:00pm
Notes
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- Useful resource for the unemployed archivists 9:00pm Nov 23
- The Thanksgiving Myth 6:09am Nov 23
- Intern Activities- Artifact Collections at the Congregational Library 6:23am Nov 19
Congregational Library Through the Internet Archive scanning center at the Boston Public Library, we have digitized over 9,000 pages and our scans of books have been downloaded over 7,500 times.
The New England Archivists are continuing to come up with more ways to help out the unemployed professionals amongst us. They have created a job posting page on their site- check it out.
This past week I picked up James Baker’s Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday. Baker was Director of Research at Plimoth Plantation for many years, and I suppose that easily makes hi...
Congregational Library We will be closing at noon Wednesday, November 25 and will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and Friday, November 27 for the holiday.
Our advanced archive class intern shares his experience with his project -------------The Congregational Library is home to more than books, manuscript collections, and archival collections. A hidden collection exists ...
After a lot of planning and collaboration with our project partners at the Jonathan Edwards Center, we are proud to announce that the early records from the First Congregational Church in Natick, MA are transcribed and available for use online...
We were browsing through some scrapbooks in the stacks recently and spent some time reviewing 13 volumes plus an index of clippings from The Congregationalist of the column "Conversation Corner," a column for children. The author of this column, Mr. Martin, was in reality Rev. Charles C....
In 1897, Rev.Morton Dexter made a gift of thePew Back from Scrooby Church to the American Congregational Association. Rev. Dexter was the son of Rev. Henry M...
Francis Burns (1809-1863) was an American Methodist minster who
Emily Glinert, one of our interns this semester wrote today's piece on her project-As an intern at the Congregational Library this semester, I have been working with the collection of Rev...
Many visitors to the library have seen this remarkable desk and we have written about it previously...
Congregational Library Watch for postings on the Treasures of the Pilgrims
Edward Dorr Griffin (1770-1837) ...
Our progress on the church records microfilming project continues. We now have Falmouth and Wenham churches to add to our growing collections...
