Charles Street Meeting House

The Charles Street Meeting House is a brick structure with a tall, white steeple topped by a clock that stopped ticking decades ago. Built in eighteen oh seven for the Third Baptist Church, the building served as a sanctuary for abolitionists and escaped slaves. When the church leadership refused to condemn slavery, congregants walked out to form the Twelfth Baptist Church. Frederick Douglass spoke from this pulpit, and William Lloyd Garrison used these halls to organize against the Fugitive Slave Law.