County of church: Rockingham County
Location of church: 1st NH Turnpike (US-202), Northwood
Architect: Johnathan Tasker
Phone: (603) 942-7116
"We Believe in the Importance of Worship with a weekly service at 9:00 am every Sunday and a Communion Service on the first Sunday of the month. We have seasonal services including an Easter Sunrise Service, two Christmas Eve Services and many other occasions to worship together.
"We Believe in the Call to Outreach to the Local and Global Community with an active Missions Committee and opportunities to assist those in need locally, nationally and globally. Some members of our congregation journeyed to the Domincan Republic to help those in need, while others pack Thanksgiving food baskets for our neighbors, visit the sick or donate to the local Secret Santa Program.
"We Believe in Passing on Faith to all, Especially our Youth and Children with our Children's Message, Sunday School and Confirmation Classes
"We Believe in Establishing a Community of Mutual Support, Fellowship and Belonging with our coffee hour after church and lots of fun events during the year like our Strawberry Festival, Shrove Tuesday Pancake Breakfast, Epiphany Arts Festival, Blessing of the Animals Service and Faith and Family Fun Day with the Fisher Cats." ~ NOrthwood Congregational Church, UCC
"The Northwood Congregational Church is located in the town center of Northwood, on the south side of US Route 4, just east of the Coe-Brown Northwood Academy. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is built to resemble a classical Greek temple front, with four fluted columns supporting a full triangular pediment, above a recessed entry. The tympanum of the pediment is flushboarded. The entry facade has two doorways, each flanked by pilasters which stand behind the columns of the facade. The church is topped by a three-stage tower with an 1888 bell.
"The church was built in 1840, probably by Jonathan Tasker, a local builder. It was for many years a mainstay of the community, and one of its early pastors, Rev. Elliott Cogswell, was instrumental in establishing the Northwood Academy (now Coe-Brown Northwood Academy). Services were discontinued due to declining participation after World War II, and were revived in the 2000s." ~ Wikipedia
"The Northwood Congregational Church. Is a rectangular clapboarded wooden
structure i'h the Greek Revival style. The entire width of the front is treated as a tetrastyle Greek Doric portico, with wooden columns supporting a full entablature (which entends
along the two sides of the Building! and a pediment with a flush-boarded tympanum. Behind
each column, on the flush-boarded facade, Is an anta or pilaster of a simplified Doric
form, A similar pilaster terminates each rear corner of the building. The facade is
pierced by two two-panel doors which enter a vestibule. Between the doors Is a two-part
window that lights the vestibule, while above each door Is a small window that lights an
interior gallery which extends across the front of the auditorium. The entablature is a
simple Greek Revival type with a plain architrave and frieze separated by a fillet having
round dowel guttae spaced every few Inches along its bottom. The raking moulding of the
pediment is of the characteristic Greek. Revival "echinus" profile, and the same moulding
continues along the sides of the building as a crown moulding (now somewhat obscured by a
metal gutter).
"A three-part tower rises from the roof of the church over the portico. The tower has two
undecorated box-like stages, and a belfry stage In which paired Doric pilasters embrace
rectangular louvered openings. Above the pilasters of the belfry stage Is a full threepart entablature capped with a cornice of the profile used on ttie body of the church. This
tower contains a bell by the William Blafce Foundry of Boston, Massachusetts; the bell was
presented to the church as a memorial In 1872, but was not cast until 1888.
"The major elements of the frame church are of hewn white pine. The roof trusses are of
the king-post type, with principal rafters that support purl ins and common rafters.
Diagonal struts extend from shoulders at the bottom of each king post to the midpoint of
each principal rafter, and the roof frame is further reinforced by wind braces that extend
from rafters to purl ins and by a system of horizontal braces between the bottom chords of
the trusses." ~ NRHP Nomination Form