First Church in Boston

The current building, located on 66 Marlborough Street in the Back Bay neighborhood, was designed by Paul Rudolph in a modernist style after a fire in 1968.

It incorporates part of the earlier gothic revival building designed by William Robert Ware and Henry Van Brunt in 1867.

Two years later they constructed a meeting house across the Charles River near what is now State Street in Boston, and Wilson was officially installed as minister there.

[2] In the 18th century, Charles Chauncy was a minister at First Church for sixty years,[3] where he gained a reputation for opposing what he believed was the emotionalism of Jonathan Edwards during the Great Awakening.

The current building incorporates the ruined street facade and "puddingstone" steeple tower of the previous church on the site (by Ware & van Brunt, 1868), which had burned in 1968.