Country United States Opened 1761 | Completed 1761 Phone +1 860-529-1575 | |
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Town or city Wethersfield, Connecticut Address 250 Main St, Wethersfield, CT 06109, USA Similar Wethersfield Historical Society, First Church of Christ - Co, Buttolph‑Williams House, Joseph Webb House, Webb‑Deane‑Stevens Museum Profiles | ||
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The First Church of Christ, Wethersfield, is an American Colonial Era church in the Old Wethersfield Historic District of Wethersfield, Connecticut. The congregation was founded in 1635, and the present brick Meetinghouse was built in 1761 with its distinctive white steeple. The church cemetery also dates from the 1600s. The congregation was affiliated with the United Church of Christ from 1961 through 2004.
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According to a plaque at the tower entrance door, George Washington attended church there on May 20, 1781, during a conference with Count de Rochambeau at the nearby Joseph Webb House to plan the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War.
The church and its Austin organ hosted the first eighteen years of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival USA, a major national competition for young organists held annually since 1998 in the Hartford area, co-founded by First Church music minister David Spicer.