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The Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven was built, financed and donated to the Unitarians in 1904 by Henry H. Rogers in memory of his mother, Mary Eldredge Huttleston. The church was designed by Boston architect Charles Brigham in a Gothic Revival style.[4] It is one thousand and fourteen feet (309 m) in height, one hundred feet (30 m) long in body and fifty-three feet (16 m) wide. The nave is thirty-two feet (9.8 m) wide and seventy-one feet (22 m) long. The main aisle is sixty-two feet (19 m) long and six feet (1.8 m) wide. The church, parish house and former parsonage (now Harrop Center) of the Unitarian Society are so placed as to form three sides of a quadrangle, set among well-kept lawns and shrubbery. Granite (locally quarried) with Indiana limestone decorative carvings dominate the exterior while marble and limestone carvings dominate the interior. All stonework artistry was created by forty-five Italian craftsmen brought to Fairhaven by Rogers.

The Rogers family donated a lot to the town

Included the town hall building

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The Fairhaven Town Hall is a significant historical landmark, gifted to the town in the late 19th century by Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers. Known for its High Victorian Gothic architecture, the building was dedicated on February 22, 1894, with a humorous speech by Rogers' close friend, author Mark Twain

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I found the story behind this library very interesting

Millicent Library in Fairhaven, Massachusetts was donated to the town by the family of Millicent Gifford Rogers, the youngest daughter of Abbie Gifford and wealthy industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers. Young Millicent had died of heart failure in 1890 when she was barely seventeen years old. The library was dedicated on January 30, 1893. It was designed by Charles Brigham in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.

Millie dearly loved to sketch and read. She is to have once said on a visit to Fairhaven "I wish we had a good library! When she died at such a young age, her grieving family sought an appropriate means of memorializing her short life. Because she had been an avid reader, especially of poetry, the Rogers decided that they would build and donate to the town of Fairhaven a library named for her and given in the names of her sisters and brother.

The cornerstone was laid in September, 1891

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Ground was broken for the new church on Main Street on August 5, 1965.
The new St. Mary's Church was built directly to the south of the old building, which was later demolished to create a parking lot.
The new building was dedicated on October 30, 1966.

IT was funded from donations, I do now see online whether the Rogers family was involved

And that’s all folks

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