The photograph shows the Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, a Gothic Revival stone church with a tall corner tower, pinnacles, and pointed-arch windows, seen from the street through bare deciduous trees. Henry Huttleston Rogers, a Fairhaven native and Standard Oil executive, funded the church as a memorial to his mother, Mary Huttleston Rogers. Architect Charles Brigham designed it, and it was completed in 1904. The building is one of several civic landmarks Rogers gave the town, and it was only two years old in 1906.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
from Mrs Hicks-
Miss Charlotte, I was
lonesome all day Monday
I have not [illegible] gotten only it
Translation
Mrs. Charlotte, 2 times
leave all the hundred
do only with good order
From Kicka
Undivided-back era card with a white border; heavy white scuffing and paper loss scattered across the image; handwritten message in ink on both side margins of the front. Postmark: NEW BEDFORD, MASS. JUL 26 9 AM 1906 (origin cancel tying the 1-cent Franklin stamp); receiving cancel AMESBURY, MASS. JUL 26 2-30P 1906. Undivided back, 1906; white border, halftone print on cream stock; light soiling and edge wear.
Cite this card
Unitarian Memorial Church, Fairhaven, MA, 1906, postcard, c. 1906. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/unitarian-memorial-church-fairhaven-ma-1906. Accessed November 2, 2026.
