Image: Heath Union Church, Heath, Massachusetts

Description: Heath Union Church 5 East Main Street Heath, Massachusetts "Col. David Snow (1779-1862) designed the church with modest Gothic Revival features in the center facade window, blind-arch side windows with Greek Revival pilasters and a box belfrey with restored bell and weather vane (1980). The interior includes the original arched ceiling and restored pew boxes (1915). The traction Johnson organ (installed 1851) originally pumped from behind by a boy, came from Whately and was built in Haydenville, MA. It may be the oldest in existence." Source: Heath Union Church, HEA-12, Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth, MACRIS (Massachusetts Cultural Resources Information System) https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=HEA.12 Theologian Reinhold Neibuhr spent summers in Heath, Massachusetts. There he wrote the original version of "The Serenity Prayer" and delivered it for the first time in this church. This church is in the Heath Center Historic District, National Register of Historic Places #07001103
Title: Heath Union Church, Heath, Massachusetts
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