Meeting House
The First Parish Meeting House, located in the heart of a National Historic District, has anchored Cohasset Common for over two and a half centuries.
On the two hundredth anniversary of the Meeting House, the Rev. Roscoe E. Trueblood celebrated the occasion with the poem found at the end of this page.
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Meeting House Exterior
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The Pulpit
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Meeting House Interior/Pews
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Chior Loft / Robing Room
The Organ
Behold, this house has stood for ten score years,
Blessed by the snow and rain and soft dawnlight,
Warm-dressed in coat of venerable white.
What glowing virtues its fair history rears!
Built in its walls are sorrows, songs, prayers, tears,
And a long pilgrimage in search of Right:
Here thousands witness that the truth is might
And age by age, their spirit reappears.
Still stands this steepled stairway of a dream,
A dream that triumphs over time, change, death,
That beckons always with insistent gleam,
Puts Soul in man and Life in human breath:
That storms high upward from the humble sod,
Brings heaven to man and man Close to his God.
Rev. Roscoe E. Trueblood, 1947
