Meeting House

The First Parish Meeting House, located in the heart of a National Historic District, has anchored Cohasset Common for over two and a half centuries.

On the two hundredth anniversary of the Meeing House, the Rev. Roscoe E. Trueblood celebrated the occasion with the poem found at the end of this page.

Meeting House Exterior

The Pulpit

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Meeting House Interior/Pews

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Chior Loft / Robing Room

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The Organ

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Two Hundredth Anniversary

Behold, this house has stood for ten score years,
Blessed by the snow and rain and soft dawnlight,
Warm-dressed in coat of venerable white.
What glowing virtues its fair history rears!
Built in its walls are sorrows, songs, prayers, tears,
And a long pilgrimage in search of Right:
Here thousands witness that the truth is might
And age by age, their spirit reappears.

Still stands this steepled stairway of a dream,
A dream that triumphs over time, change, death,
That beckons always with insistent gleam,
Puts Soul in man and Life in human breath:
That storms high upward from the humble sod,
Brings heaven to man and man Close to his God.

Rev. Roscoe E. Trueblood, 1947