May 21, 2025 by Geri Duff
In South Hingham religious meetings were held occasionally in private homes until 1890. At that time Mrs. Annie Belcher and her sister Sara Chubbick of Gardner Street, with the neighbors, established a Sunday School along with regular Sunday Services in a rented room in Leonard Gardner’s woodenware manufactory. As there was no heat in that building, the United Social Society had this chapel built the following spring and it was dedicated in May of 1891. It became a private home in 1905 with an address of 231 Gardner Street. In 1966 it was moved to 319 Gardner. The photo is from a Julian Loring Notebook in the Hingham Historical Society Archives.