Historical note Universalist services were first held in the meetinghouse of the Central Congregational Society on Greenough Avenue purchased by the Jamaica Plain Universalist Parish in1871. The church was organized on April 2, 1888. Land was acquired on Rockview Street in 1889, but a new church was not built until 1892. Services ceased in 1927. On January 16, 1928, at a called meeting of the members, the treasurer was instructed to execute a deed for the property to the Massachusetts Universalist Convention. Ministers (with approximate dates) 1872-1874 : Charles H. Leonard 1875 : William H. Dearborn 1880-1882 : Benjamin F. Eaton 1888-1889 : Isaac P. Coddington 1890 : Gideon Keirn 1891-1893 : Charles R. Tenney 1893-1896 : Franklin K. Gifford 1897-1901 : Chester G. Miller 1905-1910 : Florence K. Crooker 1911-1913 : Francis W. Sprague 1914-1922 : Merril C. Ward 1923-1924 : Harvey H. Hoyt 1925 : Cornelius Greenway 1926 : James F. Perkins http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/div00291.html