Olive Hoogenboom
1987
This is the story of one Unitarian Universalist congregation founded in 1833 and housed in a magnificent building which was designed by Minard Lafever and completed in 1844. The church building still stands today with the addition of over ten Tiffany Studios' stained glass windows and an active congregation of over 250 members. The story covers the history of a liberal religious congregation which was deeply intertwined with the history of the borough of Brooklyn, Manhattan and the nation from 1833 to 1983. In the nineteenth century the stories of early notable Brooklyn figures such as Seth Low, William Cary, Alfred T. White and Augustus Graham are found. Here are figures involved in the China clipper ship trade and the creation of innovative settlement housing. In the twentieth century the history of this socially minded church is shown by its involvement in protesting the Vietnam War and its support of the Civil Rights and Black Empowerment Movements.
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