{"id":11,"date":"2023-09-28T20:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrowestmodern.wordpress.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2024-06-19T18:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T18:27:04","slug":"fellowship-hall-trinity-church-presbyterian-1956-by-the-architects-collaborative-tac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/2023\/09\/28\/fellowship-hall-trinity-church-presbyterian-1956-by-the-architects-collaborative-tac\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellowship Hall, Trinity Church\u2013Presbyterian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Natick, MA, 1953, the Architects’ Collaborative (TAC)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Built in 1956, the Fellowship hall for Natick\u2019s Trinity Church \u2013 now known as Hartford Street Presbyterian Church \u2013  was designed as the first of a four building complex designed to reflect the four pillars of Church life: fellowship, education, meditation, and worship. The original plan would have included a more intimate round chapel with only a skylight, a larger chapel for services and an education center in the rear all connected by covered walkways. The fellowship hall, which was the only building actually realized, was designed with a series of 17ft bays that could be expanded horizontally if need be. The bays are divided by the structural wood beams which jut out of the facade to create a covered front and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site now includes one of the town\u2019s community garden spaces as well as an \u2018emergency food pantry\u2019 named A Place to Turn located in what was labeled as the Parish House in the original Master Plan documents. A Place to Turn provides food, diapers and personal care to families in the Metrowest area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources: <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Architectural Record December 1953 & May 1956.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Natick, MA, 1953, the Architects’ Collaborative (TAC) Built in 1956, the Fellowship hall for Natick\u2019s Trinity Church \u2013 now known as Hartford Street Presbyterian Church \u2013  was designed as the first of a four building complex designed to reflect the four pillars of Church life: fellowship, education, meditation, and worship. The original plan would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,27,82],"tags":[3,34,8,9,10,11,22,29,35],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dick-morehouse","category-natick","category-the-architects-collaborative","tag-architecture","tag-church","tag-massachusetts","tag-metrowest","tag-modern","tag-modernism","tag-natick","tag-tac","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbranagan.com\/Metrowestmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}