The contract for building the church edifice of the First Church of Christ Scientist, corner of Falmouth and Caledonia streets, Boston, has been awarded to the French Pond Granite Railway company of Woodsville, Charles L. Fellows of Concord, and John Swenson of West Concord. Mr. L. O. Barker, superintendent of the French Pond company, who received the World's fair award for his exhibit of Concord granite, is to be congratulated for bringing this contract to a successful termination.
The pink granite trimmings will be from the quarries of the French Pond Granite Railway company at Briar hill, North Haverhill. The Random Ashler will come from the quarries of John Swenson, West Concord, and Charles L. Fellows of this city will have the mason work.
The church is to be fireproof, of Romanesque architecture, with tower and bay at front, the tower to rise one hundred and twenty feet. Inside are accommodations for a reception room, retiring rooms, lecture rooms, and a large auditorium, and the intention is to place a large pipe organ in rear of the pulpit. It is designed to be, when it is all completed, one of the finest churches on the Back Bay. The architect is Franklin I. Welch of Boston, Mass.—Concord Monitor.
