Details
Title

Boulder Congregational Church collection

Date

[1900]-1911

Call Number

BHS 170

Contents

60 photographs.

Description

This collection contains 60 exterior and interior photographs (59 different images) of the Boulder Congregational church at Broadway and Pine streets and related views, taken by local photographer and church member J. R. Brackett, mostly in June of 1911. They were printed in 1989 from negatives in the collection. Seventeen positive negatives that also are part of this collection have not been printed. All of the glass plates are stored in the Sanford Gladden Room.

History

The Boulder Congregational Church was organized on Sunday, 17 July 1864, in a cottonwood grove near the Valmont butte. Ground was broken in late 1866 for the first church structure erected in Boulder, on the northwest corner of 12th (later renamed Broadway) and Pine streets; that building was dedicated on 10 July 1870. That meeting place was replaced by the building across Pine Street on the southwest corner with Broadway, which was dedicated in January of 1908.
In June of 1911, J. Edward LeBosquet was the pastor of the church. The church parsonage was located at 1128 Pine St. J. Raymond Brackett, the photographer, was a professor of English literature at the University of Colorado, and was a member of the Congregational Church. Brackett lived nearby, at 2455 12th St. (Broadway).

Terms of Use

RIGHTS: The historic photographs and documents, with the Source BHS, belong to the Boulder Historical Society/Museum of Boulder and require attribution when used. These items are on permanent loan to the Carnegie Library for Local History. No duplicated materials may be deposited, or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.

Format

Photographs.

Author

Brackett, J. Raymond 1854-1922

Subjects

First Congregational Church (Boulder, Colo.)--Buildings--Pictorial works
Congregational churches--Colorado--Boulder
Parsonages--Colorado--Boulder
Church architecture--Colorado--Boulder
Fireplaces--Colorado--Boulder
Photographers--Colorado--Boulder
Boulder (Colo.)--Pictorial works
1100 block of Pine Street (Boulder, Colo.)
1144 Pine Street (Boulder, Colo.)

Acquisition Note

Donor: unknown Date unknown

Note

This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

Pages

Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: Original building exterior
Call Number 170-1-1
Date 1900-1905
Contents 2 photographs.
Description This envelope contains two exterior views of the original Boulder Congregational Church, built on the north side of Pine Street, where the Carnegie Library was later constructed.

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: Sanctuary interior
Call Number 170-1-2
Date 1911
Contents 4 photographs.
Description This envelope contains four interior views of the sanctuary of the Boulder Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pine streets, by local photographer J. R. Brackett.

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: Basement vestry views
Call Number 170-1-3
Date 1911
Contents 5 photographs.
Description This envelope contains five interior views of the vestry in the basement of the Boulder Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pine streets, by local photographer J. R. Brackett.

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: Fireplace, ladies' parlor
Call Number 170-1-4
Date 1911
Contents 3 photographs.
Description This envelope contains three interior views of a fireplace in the ladies' parlor in the basement of the Boulder Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pine streets, by local photographer J. R. Brackett.

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: Fireplace, pastor's study
Call Number 170-1-5
Date 1911
Contents 2 photographs.
Description This envelope contains two interior views of a fireplace in the pastor's study in the basement of the Boulder Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pine streets, by local photographer J. R. Brackett.

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: parsonage exterior views
Call Number 170-1-6
Date 1911
Contents 4 photographs.
Description This envelope contains four exterior front views from the north of the Boulder Congregational Church parsonage at 1128 Pine St., by local photographer J. R. Brackett.

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: Northwest views
Call Number 170-1-7
Date [1911]
Contents 5 photographs.
Description This envelope contains five exterior views of the front of the Boulder Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pine streets, as seen from the northwest from across Pine St. Photos by local photographer J. R. Brackett,

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: East views
Call Number 170-1-8
Date 1911
Contents 3 photographs.
Description This envelope contains three exterior views of the east side of the Boulder Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pine streets, from across 12th (Broadway) Street. Photos by local photographer J. R. Brackett.

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: Northeast views
Call Number 170-1-9
Date [1911]
Contents 4 photographs.
Description This envelope contains four exterior views of the northeast corner of the Boulder Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pine streets, as seen from across the intersection of Broadway and Pine. Photos by local photographer J. R. Brackett,

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: cornerstone
Call Number 170-1-10
Date 1911
Contents 2 photographs.
Description This envelope contains two views of the cornerstone of the Boulder Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pine streets, June 1911. Photos by local photographer J. R. Brackett.

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: Mission church
Call Number 170-1-11
Date 1911
Contents 1 photograph.
Description This envelope contains one exterior view of the side and rear of a house that was a mission church of the Boulder Congregational Church. Photo by J. R. Brackett.

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Boulder Congregational Church
Boulder Congregational Church: Exterior details
Call Number 170-1-12
Date 1911
Contents 5 photographs.
Description This envelope contains five exterior views of architectural details of the Boulder Congregational Church on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pine streets, by local photographer J. R. Brackett. The views show the entrance doors, the north window, lamp posts at the Pine St. main entrance, Ira Chase standing at the east entrance with his hat off, and pastor J. Edward LeBosquet standing at the north entrance with his hat on.

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