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The Parish House, which stands on Main Street, nearly opposite the meeting-house was completed and dedicated March 20, 1891.
There being no vestry room or chapel connected with the meeting-house, the need had long been felt of a suitable building for the uses of the Sunday-school and other purposes connected with the religious and charitable work and social life of the parish. For fifteen or twenty years efforts had been made by those interested, with good success, to accumulate a fund sufficient for the erection of such a building. The Ladies' Benevolent Society connected with the parish, by means of fairs and entertainments, made substantial contributions to this fund; Rev. Calvin Lincoln, by his will, left to the parish a sum of money which could be used for the purpose; these with other amounts being invested from time to time increased by the accumulations of interest; money was subscribed for the purchase of the lot; and in due time this Parish House was built. Peabody & Stearns were the architects.
The difficulties attending the formation of this parish have already been stated.
In what year a meeting-house was erected in Conohasset does not appear by the records. It was probably in 1713, possibly not, until after 1717, but certainly before 1721. Probably there was preaching in it before the settlement of the first pastor. Its dimensions were thirty-five by twenty-five feet, and it was situated on the Plain a little to the south of the present house. May 14, 1713, it was voted "that the proprietors of the undivided lands give their consent to the inhabitants of Conohasset to erect a meeting-house on that land called 'The Plain.'"
Many facts relating to the history of the Second Parish may be ordained from the valuable and interesting discourses delivered by the Rev. Jacob Flint, on the completion of the first century of its existence.
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