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Online lecture – Saturday, May 29, 11 a.m. “The Williamstown Meetinghouse from Yesterday to Today,” presented by Pat Leach

Please join the WHM on Saturday, May 29, at 11 a.m. for a fascinating online lecture on the history of the Williamstown meetinghouse, presented by Pat Leach.

Online lecture

The Williamstown Meetinghouse from Yesterday to Today
Presented by Pat Leach
Saturday, May 29, 11 a.m.

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/93596468310
Or One tap mobile :  +13017158592,,93596468310#
Or Telephone:  1 (301) 715-8592
Webinar ID: 935 9646 8310

The second meetinghouse, 19th century, located in what is now Williamstown’s Field Park

You are invited to join the Williamstown Historical Museum on Saturday, May 29, at 11 a.m. via Zoom webinar for a lecture on the several Williamstown meetinghouses, presented by Pat Leach.  In this webinar, viewers will learn more about the history and architecture of the Williamstown meetinghouse from its original one room structure in what is now Field Park to its white clad building (the First Congregational Church) on Main Street.  Viewers will learn about how the meetinghouse has served as a gathering place for important town and college activities since the 1700s and about the  building’s dramatic architectural changes.  This lecture about a striking and significant Williamstown building is not to be missed.  Please join us!

Sketch of Williamstown’s first meetinghouse
The meetinghouse in its current location on Main Street, brick clad with two steeples
Current white clad meetinghouse (First Congregational Church)