Congregational Library & Archives
The Congregational Library & Archives is an independent special collections library and archives. It is located on the second floor of the Congregational House at 14 Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Library was founded in 1853 by a gathering of Congregational ministers and has since evolved into a professional library and archives that holds more than 250,000 items, predominantly focused on 18th to 21st century American Congregational history. The Library's reading room is free and open to the public for research but the Library's stacks are closed and book borrowing privileges are extended exclusively to members.
The Congregational House, home to the Congregational Library & Archives, designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge with bas-relief carvings by Domingo Mora.
The Signing of the Mayflower Compact on the 21st of November, 1620
Observance of the Sabbath on Clark's Island, Prior to Landing on Plymouth Rock
Act of the General Court of Massachusetts and the Founding of Harvard College
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Circulating library and stationery shop, Gulgong, Australia, 1870
Atwater Library of the Mechanics Institute of Montreal
