Pawtucket Congregational Church

	Pawtucket Congregational Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
	1886 engraving
Location	Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°52′36″N 71°22′54″W / 41.87667°N 71.38167°W
Built	1867
Architect	John Stevens
Architectural style	Italianate, Romanesque
Part of	Quality Hill Historic District (ID84002041)
NRHP reference No.	78000004
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 18, 1978
Designated CP	April 13, 1984

The Pawtucket Congregational Church (now known as The Temple of Restoration Pentecostal Church) is an historic church building at 40 and 56 Walcott Street, at the junction of Broadway and Walcott St., in the Quality Hill neighborhood of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

History

Early in the town's history, the Baptists lived mainly on the west side of the river, and attended church services in Providence. The Congregationalists on the east side of the river attended services at the Newman Congregational Church three miles away in Rehoboth (now East Providence). The Congregationalists established their own Pawtucket Congregational Church on April 17, 1829, with nine members: eight women and one man.^[2] The first pastor was the Rev. Asa T. Hopkins. The congregation's first church was destroyed by fire in 1864.^[2]^[3]

The Italianate/Romanesque style church building was designed by Boston, Massachusetts architect John Stevens (not to be confused with John Calvin Stevens) and constructed in 1867–1868; it is the only known work of Stevens in Rhode Island.^[4] The cost of construction was $64,000.^[3] By 1886 the congregation numbered 300 members.^[3] Members of the church included wealthy mill owners from Pawtucket and neighboring Central Falls, such as Darius Goff and Daniel Littlefield.^[5] In 1936 a Colonial Revival parish house was built behind the church, to designs by local architects Monahan & Meikle.^[6]

The church has been active in the community and leased a building to the first Rhode Island Children's Museum from the 1970s to 1990s. The church's main building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

Since 2012, the church has been known as The Temple of Restoration Pentecostal Church, hosting a bilingual congregation.

Temple of Restoration, formerly Pawtucket Congregational Church, in 2012
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References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Federal Writers' Project (1937). Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 248. ISBN 9781623760380. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Greene, Welcome Arnold (1886). The Providence Plantations for 250 Years. Providence, RI: J.A. & R.A. Reid. pp. 380–381.
^ "NRHP nomination for Pawtucket Congregational Church" (PDF). Retrieved November 18, 2014.
^ Grieve, Robert (1897). Illustrated History of Pawtucket, Central Falls and Vicinity. Providence: Henry R. Caufield. pp. 324–326.
^ Historic Resources of Pawtucket, Rhode Island: Partial Inventory, Historic and Architectural Properties. 1984.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[WPA-2] Federal Writers' Project (1937). Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 248. ISBN 9781623760380. Retrieved March 24, 2015.

[Prov250-3] Greene, Welcome Arnold (1886). The Providence Plantations for 250 Years. Providence, RI: J.A. & R.A. Reid. pp. 380–381.

[NRHP-4] "NRHP nomination for Pawtucket Congregational Church" (PDF). Retrieved November 18, 2014.

[Grieve-5] Grieve, Robert (1897). Illustrated History of Pawtucket, Central Falls and Vicinity. Providence: Henry R. Caufield. pp. 324–326.

[6] Historic Resources of Pawtucket, Rhode Island: Partial Inventory, Historic and Architectural Properties. 1984.

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