| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Temples of Grace: The Material Transformation of Connecticut's Churches, 1790–1840. By Gretchen Townsend Buggeln. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2003. xvi, 312 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-58465-322-1.)

Between 1790 and 1840, Connecticut's religious landscape was transformed. All across the state, old meetinghouses were torn down to make room for larger, modern, and more expensive churches. Visually, the change was startling. While seventeenth-century meetinghouses had been plain rectangular or square buildings with either benches or box pews inside, early nineteenth-century churches (influenced by neoclassical and Gothic styles) featured porticos, tall spires, and long pews. How and why did this transformation take place?

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