From Dave Brigham:
You know a city has reached the acme of teardown fever when churches start getting razed.
This is the former St. Philip Neri Church, which was built in 1930 in the Waban section of Newton, Mass. Closed by the Archdiocese of Boston in 2007, it was used by a Korean congregation until 2014 (see June 3, 2016, "I Seek Newton, Part IV: Waban").
A developer put forth a few redevelopment plans for the church property before finally coming to an agreement with the city and neighbors. See this article for the plan.
And this is what the lot looked like as of mid-October.
What was once a peaceful, shady corner of Waban with a quaint, brick house of worship is being turned into yet another cookie-cutter assortment of houses that neighbors will for the most part disdain. I prefer when churches and synagogues are turned into housing, as has been the case in other parts of Newton.
The beautiful former First Church of Christ, Scientist on Walnut Street in Newtonville was converted to condos in 2004.
The condominiums below are in the circa-1910 former Newton Methodist Congregation Church on Centre Street in Newton Corner. The building was converted to homes in 2001.
This old building of worship was actually a Methodist Episcopal Church
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. Which of the three buildings are you referring to? I'm guessing it's the last one.
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