Back Köhnə Cənub yığıncaq evi Azerbaijani Old South Meeting House German Old South Meeting House French Old South Meeting House Italian オールド・サウス集会場 Japanese 올드 사우스 집회소 Korean Old South Meeting House Dutch 老南聚会所 Chinese
Old South Meeting House | |
 The Old South Meeting House, 1968 | |
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| Location | Corner of Washington and Milk Streets Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°21′25″N 71°3′31″W / 42.35694°N 71.05861°W |
| Built | 1729 |
| Architect | Twelves, Robert |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 66000778[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NHL | October 9, 1960 |
The Old South Meeting House is a historic Congregational church building located at the corner of Milk and Washington Streets in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1729. It gained fame as the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. Five thousand or more colonists[2] gathered at the Meeting House, the largest building in Boston at the time.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ John Galvin puts that number as high as 8,000 (Three Men of Boston, New York: Thomas Cromwell, 1976, p. 268).