While the address is on Wachusett - the front of this building faces onto Patten Street.
This church was constructed in 1899 by the Forest Hills Methodist Society. It was started in the same year that the Parkman School was started. That is not a coincidence. The electric streetcars came through this area in the 1890s and the Boston & Providence Railroad went onto its elevated embankment in 1895. So at the turn of the twentieth century there were many new residents taking advantage of the new forms of transportation and moving to the area. This new population needed public buildings. Mr. Andrew Peters donated the land to build the church and James Hutchinson was the architect. It was completed in 1901 and was originally a Tudor Revival building with half-timbering and a lovely steeple on the corner.
In 1977 this building became a Knights of Columbus meeting hall and it was covered with blue vinyl siding. They took down the steeple. In the summer of 2006 the City granted final building permission for an adaptive re-use of the building. It now houses 6 condominiums with underground parking. Work was completed in the summer of 2007 and the developer, James Lockwood (a RISD grad) along with the architect Peter Quinn did a really nice job of rehabbing the building to echo its past as a Methodist Church. They reused a segment of altar rail, a pulpit, mimicked the old trefoil windows (on the Wachusett St façade) and rebuilt the tower.