Paying rent to sit in a certain pew at church for a worship service may seem extremely strange nowadays. Yet there was a time when the practice was quite common for certain congregations, including Trinitarian Congregational Church. What you are looking at are the original plans for pew assignment and cost. It’s in extremely fragile […]

As you look around this beautiful church, I’m sure you’ve seen many marble and brass plaques, memorial gifts, and other historical items with the names of past church members.  Someone once said to me it would be interesting to know who some of these people were. I agreed, so today I’d like to honor one […]

Seasons Greetings!  Looking for an idea for the Christmas season, I came across this notation in the Trinitarian Times newsletter dated December 7, 1950. How beautiful this must have looked towering above Elm Street during Christmas time. I searched our archives and couldn’t find a photo of the star on the church (I’ll keep looking) […]

Greetings!  While up in the church’s attic Pastor Debra came across this beautifully framed portrait of this distinguished gentleman.  Any guesses who he is?? Well, let me introduce you to Joseph Mason Stone.  He was a partner of the Davis & Furber Machine Company here in North Andover and in 1865 graciously donated $5,000 towards […]

We’ve all walked by this majestic WWI bronze plaque located on the wall of the narthex, but have you ever stopped to look at the names of the church members who served during WWI?  As Memorial Day approaches, I wanted to highlight some of the names listed, which includes our 9th Pastor John Keedy, Albert […]

List of original members from Sept 3, 1834 –  The Evangelical Congregational Church in North Andover Ezra Abbott 2nd Timothy Abbott Ruth (Bradley) Barker (Mrs. Joshua) South Church, Andover Seth Burnham Emeline (Hennenway) Clark (Mrs. Ezra) Church in Framingham Joseph Cummings South Church, Andover Mary Plummer (Poor)(Step) Cummings (Mrs. Joseph) South Church, Andover Jedediah Farnham […]