Hope Church at one hundred years, 1876-1976 : a history of Hope Congregational Church, Springfield, Massachusetts (URL)

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Title:
Hope Church at one hundred years, 1876-1976 : a history of Hope Congregational Church, Springfield, Massachusetts (URL)
Description:
This is the URL to the 36-page manuscript is titled " Hope Church at one hundred years, 1876-1976: a history of Hope Congregational Church, Springfield, Massachusetts." The document tells the narrative of the history of Hope Congregational Church from its start in 1876 to its hundredth anniversary in 1976. There are pictures of the various churches and some of the important pastors and figures in its history. The manuscript has lists of ministers, membership numbers and budgets and lists of important members of the church throughout its history, including clerks, treasurers, chairmen of board, and Sunday School superintendents. Finally, there is the list of the 100th anniversary committee and the 100th anniversary Program for programs on March 14, 1976 and September 19, 1976 and a program from the March 14th celebrations. Construction on the building was completed in the spring of 1886 and it was dedicated on June 1 of that year. The building consisted of a reading room, gymnasium, parlor, a recitation room, an amusement room and fifty sleeping rooms. The Armory Hill YMCA also rented rooms in the building. In 1891 James Naismith, while a faculty member at the school, invented the game of basketball in the gymnasium of the building. In 1890 the School for Christian Workers separated into two schools which continued to operate out of the same building, the YMCA Training School and the School for Christian Workers. In 1896 the Training School finished the transition to its new location on Alden Street and in 1897 the School for Christian Workers became the Bible Normal College and moved to Hartford, Connecticut. The original building was torn down in 1965 to create a parking lot. In 1995, McDonald’s Corporation bought the land, excavating the original foundation and bricks before building a restaurant on the site. Today, there is a monument commemorating the site as the birthplace of basketball. The copy of this manuscript that was digitized is within the Springfield College Rare Book collection and not the copy that exist in this collection. This URL leads to this copy. Both copies were compared and at the time no differences were noticed.;
Creator:
Hope Congregational Church (Springfield, Mass.)
Date:
[1976?]
Format:
Documents
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Subjects:
Springfield College
School for Christian Workers (Springfield, Mass.)
Springfield College--Presidents
Springfield College--Buildings
Original School Building
International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (Springfield, Mass.)
Lee, Henry S., 1834-1902
Reed, David Allen
YMCA
Amory Hill YMCA
Hope Church
Springfield (Mass.)
Churches
Congregational churches
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Extent:
36 pages
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/34337
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Publisher:
Hope Congregational Church (Springfield, Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
rg111-01-01-001