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"We absolutely love the Edwards House and how wonderfully embracing everyone there is for us!"
~ Mynette Shifman, Framingham Public School Department
Meeting Rooms
The Johnson Room is dedicated to Rev. Dr. William R. Johnson, the first openly gay person ordained in the United Church of Christ (UCC) in 1972, and the first such person ordained in the Christian church. Bill continues to provide counsel and support to LGBT seminarians and clergy persons in the UCC and ecumenically.
The Tolley Room is dedicated to the selfless ministries of the Rev. Dr. William P. Tolley and Nancy Tolley, who served the United Church of Christ in many capacities as minister and members of Central Congregational Church of Newtonville from 1978-1991.
The Brown Room is dedicated to Antoinette Brown Blackwell, preacher, abolitionist and lifelong advocate for women's rights. She was ordained by the Congregational Church in 1853, the first woman to be ordained in the U.S. A pioneering suffragist, she voted November 2, 1920 at age 95.
The Haynes Room is dedicated to Lemuel Haynes, Congregational minister, writer and abolitionist, and the first African American to be ordained in a U.S. mainline Protestant denomination."Liberty is equally as precious to a black man, as it is to a white one, and bondage equally as intolerable to the one as to the other."Rev. Lemuel Haynes
The Amistad Room is dedicated to the 53 African Americans from Sierra Leone who bravely fought for their freedom while aboard the ship Amistad in 1839.
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"We absolutely love the Edwards House and how wonderfully embracing everyone there is for us!"
~ Mynette Shifman, Framingham Public School Department