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This is going to be a long shot, but I've been trying to find the name and location of a church for a long time now.

I remember seeing a photo of a small white church with pointy repeating bays (maybe 4 bays in total). I remember it being outside of Boston, so it's not in the city. I also remember looking it up on wikipedia and it was categorized under a strange/unique architectural style. I just can't remember the name of the church...

Let me know what you all think.
 
hienz said:
This is going to be a long shot, but I've been trying to find the name and location of a church for a long time now.

I remember seeing a photo of a small white church with pointy repeating bays (maybe 4 bays in total). I remember it being outside of Boston, so it's not in the city. I also remember looking it up on wikipedia and it was categorized under a strange/unique architectural style. I just can't remember the name of the church...

Let me know what you all think.
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I think you've come to the right place, but we need more information :)

Can you describe:

Construction material:
Wood clapboard,
concrete shell,
steel?
Glass (big windows or small?)

Age
Colonial
1800s
Modern

The "pointy" parts?
Triangular (^), or curved, or an arch?
Dormers (poking up) or A-frame (starting at the ground)

Does it fully-defy convention? or does it belong (at all ) to one of these:
Gothic (pointed arches, tall spires)
Romanesque (round arches, short or no spires)
Greek Revival (columns and low-pitch roof / temple-like)
Colonial (little white church / red-schoolhouse-painted-white)
Prairie (low, flat)
 
Firstly, thanks for entertaining my curiosity. I'll do my best - please bare with me . My memory of it is surely fading. It's been killing me trying to rediscover it.

It was probably of wood construction. However, it could be a concrete shell. It was hard to tell because it looked painted white. I'm pretty sure it was not modern construction i.e. steel, big glass windows. It may have had a rectangular brick base and a more complex structure, with the point parts at the very top, sits on the base. Triangular points.

I'm not sure what age or style it's from. It belongs to an uncommon (for mass. at least) but defined architectural style. I would recognize the style name if I saw it, so I don't think it's any of the ones you listed.
 
It's maybe 2-story tall. And it's not in the city. It's in mass though.
 
Well, I got some strange (but "modern") ones for you, and you tell me how wrong they are:

St Athanasius Catholic in Reading MA, which has a brick base, a white top and two points:
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Sacred Heart Catholic. 311 River Street in Waltham MA
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ANd the very "International Style" St Joseph's in Salem (demolished)
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Barring that, does it look like any of these 50 Extraordinary Churches:
http://www.boredpanda.com/50-most-extraordinary-churches-of-the-world/
 
St. Joseph's was in the news in the past year as there was a big fight over demolishing it. The archdiocese stated it couldn't economically be converted to residential, some Salem preservationists thought otherwise, ultimately went to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in Washington (a Federal agency).
 
Wow, those are strange churches indeed. I'll have to go visit them some time. But, none of them is the one I'm looking for. Maybe I'll see it again somewhere and post it here if ever I do.
 
hienz said:
This is going to be a long shot, but I've been trying to find the name and location of a church for a long time now.

I remember seeing a photo of a small white church with pointy repeating bays (maybe 4 bays in total). I remember it being outside of Boston, so it's not in the city. I also remember looking it up on wikipedia and it was categorized under a strange/unique architectural style. I just can't remember the name of the church...

Let me know what you all think.
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I've been expanding the architectural-styles space on Wikipedia. What do you mean by "bays"? bay windows?

Also stone church? or wooden? Also was it a church interior or exterior?
Weird styles? Cat:Hammerbeam roofs? (meaning kinda shaped like a clover arch inside.)
I'm trying to remember the weird-er Cats I've been putting together lately. Was it a clocktower in the shot?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Clock_towers_in_Massachusetts

Sometimes if you haven't cleared your browser's cache you can go back in-time and look at what you may have viewed previously.

If it had stained glass windows I might have filed it under that too. If it had a dome I might have filed it under Domes in Massachusetts. If it had a round window in the ceiling I might have filed under OCuli https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Oculi

Also see:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Architectural_elements_in_Massachusetts
or
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Architecture_of_Massachusetts_by_style
Which are two of the main jumping off points I've been working with.

Also was the photo in colour or black and white? painted ceiling?

Cat:Octagonal Churches in the United States?

If the church had a season, it could be under for example "Winter in Massachusetts".
 
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FINALLY FOUND IT! If anyone is curious it's the Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral. The canopy/arcade seems to be a ripoff from Josef Sert's Foundation Maeght.
 
hienz said:
FINALLY FOUND IT! If anyone is curious it's the Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral. The canopy/arcade seems to be a ripoff from Josef Sert's Foundation Maeght.
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Ah yes, of course. I've driven by that church a hundred times. Thank you for sharing your discovery!
 
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