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Congregational Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	921 Main St., Berlin, New Hampshire
Coordinates	44°28′40″N 71°10′18″W / 44.47778°N 71.17167°W / 44.47778; -71.17167
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1882 (1882)
Architectural style	Stick/Eastlake
NRHP reference No.	80000282
Added to NRHP	January 4, 1980

The Congregational Church (also known as the United Church of Christ) is a historic church building in Berlin, New Hampshire. Built in 1882, it was the community's first church building, and is a prominent local example of Stick/Eastlake Victorian architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The congregation was affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The building is now a private residence.

Architecture and history

Berlin's Congregational Church stands north of its downtown area, on the west side of Main Street at its southern junction with Maple Street. It is a basically rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof. Its exterior is clad in a combination of wooden clapboards, shingles, and applied Stick-style woodwork. A gabled projection extends to the left side near the rear, and a multi-stage rectangular tower rises from the left front corner. The tower has narrow windows (arched in the Gothic style on the second level), with an open belfry topped by a pyramidal roof with flared eave. The belfry openings have arched woodwork and low balustrades. A shed-roof shelter extends across the front of the main facade between the tower and a projecting gabled secondary entrance; the main entrance is in the base of the tower under a bracketed hood.

Berlin's Congregationalist congregation first organized in 1836, when a Sunday School was established, and the first settled minister was hired the following year. The congregation first met in private spaces (typically homes or barns), until 1852, when the owners of the H. Winslow store made their upstairs hall available for services. The present church, the community's first dedicated church building, was built in 1882 on land donated by the Berlin Mills Company.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Coos County, New Hampshire

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Congregational Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-03-22.

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Coös County, New Hampshire
National Historic Landmark	Mount Washington Hotel
Historic districts	The Balsams Martin Homestead Mountain View House Saint Anne Historic District Waumbek Cottages Historic District
Historic properties	Benjamin Aldrich Homestead Columbia Covered Bridge‡ Congregational Church Crawford Depot Crawford House Artist's Studio Fabyan Guard Station Garland Mill George E. Burgess School-Notre Dame High School George Washington Noyes House Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church Indian Stream Schoolhouse Meadow Bridge Mount Orne Covered Bridge‡ Mt. Jasper Lithic Source Nansen Ski Jump Philbrook Farm Inn Potter Site St. Anne Church Stark Covered Bridge Stark Union Church Tip-Top House US Post Office-Lancaster Main Wallace Farm Weeks Estate Wilder-Holton House William Dennis Weeks Memorial Library
Footnotes	‡This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Coös County, New Hampshire and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire

• United Church of Christ churches in New Hampshire
• Congregational churches in New Hampshire
• Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
• Queen Anne architecture in New Hampshire
• Churches completed in 1882
• 19th-century United Church of Christ church buildings
• Churches in Coös County, New Hampshire
• National Register of Historic Places in Coös County, New Hampshire
• Churches in Berlin, New Hampshire