Charles Street Meeting House

Address:

70 Charles Street, Boston, MA, 2114

The Charles Street Meeting House, built in 1804, served as a church and place of community congregation for nearly two centuries and is best known as a stronghold of the antislavery movement following the American Civil War. At that time, the building hosted notably speeches by Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman. The Charles Street Meeting House, vacant and in deteriorating condition, was purchased by local architect John Sharratt in the 1980s and has since been converted into a private residence, offices, and street-level retail space.

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