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The St. Lawrence Congregationalists formed a church on Munjoy Hill, centered at the St. Lawrence Street Chapel several blocks down Congress Street from where the present church sits today.In response to a need for a bigger building due to growth of the congregation (over 500 families) and purchasing an organ too large for the St. Lawrence Street Chapel, the St. Lawrence Congregation dedicates a grand new church on Congress Street occupying the entire between Beckett and Munjoy Streets. The site was that of a former ice skating rink and the closest undeveloped parcel to St. Lawrence Street.In an attempt to rescue the deteriorating building, the congregation obtains a listing for the St. Lawrence as a national landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.
For the first time in over ten years, the St. Lawrence heat goes back on with a donated boiler from Northern Utilities warming a newly poured concrete radiant floor in the lower level of the St. Lawrence. W ...
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