Unitarian Universalist Images

Photograph In March 1965, the Reverend Dana McLean Greeley (second from left), Unitarian Universalist Association President, joined other American religious leaders in civil rights marches in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma, Alabama. Reverend George...

Postcard The First Universalist Society of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was organized on March 17, 1823. Construction on this building began in 1892, and it was dedicated on January 16, 1894. For more information, see: Peter I. Cameron, The Church on...

Photograph Credit: Pach Bro's, Cambridge, Mass. [ Peabody, Francis Greenwood, with negative] For more information, see the exhibit page where this is displayed and also Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery. According to...

Photograph The First Universalist Church in Owatonna, Minnesota, was organized in 1868. This mission-style church building was dedicated on November 12, 1905. In 1919 the building was sold to the newly organized English-speaking Lutheran congregation in...

Photograph Wilburn Daniel Potter was born near Canton, New York, on July 13, 1863. He attended Canton High School and graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1886. After teaching school in Colton, New York, for several years, he entered St. Lawrence...

Postcard The Universalist Society (now the Unitarian Universalist Church) of Peoria, Illinois, was organized on May 3, 1843. From 1912 to 1963, it was known as the First Universalist Church. This building was dedicated May 28, 1911, enlarged in 1919 and...

Photograph Levi Moore Powers was born on Mar. 21, 1864, in Newry, Me. As a child, he attended the Union Church at Newry Corner (then a Methodist congregation) but resisted the orthodox doctrine of hell he heard preached there. He attended Gould Academy in...

Photograph The First Universalist Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was gathered in 1777. This building, the "brick church," was dedicated on April 21, 1897, and was destroyed by fire on January 11, 1947. The congregation had federated with the South...

Postcard In 1890, George M. Pullman (1831-97), the inventor and industrialist, offered to build a church in memory of his parents in Albion, New York, the hometown of his youth, if local Universalists could raise $5,000. On August 18, 1892, the Pullman...

Photograph (Stereoscope Viewcard) The First Universalist Society of Rochester, New York, was founded in 1846 and erected this church building in 1847. It was remodeled and rededicated in 1871, and it was remodeled and enlarged with a church school annex...