BOSTON: Denominations Downsizing and Selling Assets in More Secular Era
By MICHAEL PAULSON
THE NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/
MARCH 15, 2014
The American Unitarian Association, peopled and powered by this city's Brahmin elite, announced its presence here in 1886 with a grand and stately headquarters at the very top of Beacon Hill, right next door to the Statehouse.
If anyone doubted the denomination's might, its next move made it clear: In 1927, strapped for space, the Unitarians finished building a new home next to the capitol on the other side, even persuading the legislature to change the street's numbering so they could take their address with them.
But the Unitarian Universalist Association, as the denomination is now known, is selling its headquarters building, as well as two grand homes and an office building it owns in the same neighborhood. It is leaving behind the red brick sidewalks, gas streetlamps and superrich neighbors for a section of South Boston the city has designated an "innovation district," home to up-and-coming technology and arts businesses.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By MICHAEL PAULSON
THE NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/
MARCH 15, 2014
The American Unitarian Association, peopled and powered by this city's Brahmin elite, announced its presence here in 1886 with a grand and stately headquarters at the very top of Beacon Hill, right next door to the Statehouse.
If anyone doubted the denomination's might, its next move made it clear: In 1927, strapped for space, the Unitarians finished building a new home next to the capitol on the other side, even persuading the legislature to change the street's numbering so they could take their address with them.
But the Unitarian Universalist Association, as the denomination is now known, is selling its headquarters building, as well as two grand homes and an office building it owns in the same neighborhood. It is leaving behind the red brick sidewalks, gas streetlamps and superrich neighbors for a section of South Boston the city has designated an "innovation district," home to up-and-coming technology and arts businesses.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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