King's Chapel
Colonial granite church raised from boulders gathered off nearby farm fields and cracked open by fire.
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This guide to King's Chapel in Boston traces how its granite walls began not in a quarry but as loose boulders gathered from farms near Braintree in 1749, split apart with fire and dropped iron weights, then hauled into the city by two local contractors. It follows nervous farmers worried about losing their fields, and an architect, Peter Harrison, whose drawings weren't even finished when construction began. Look closely at the columns along the front; they aren't quite what they appear to be from the street.
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