Old North was an interracial – but not integrated – church. Its seating reflected the racial segregation of the day.

A community formed in the North Gallery. Relationships were made, and people from different households could interact, unobserved by those seated below.

The service included an outdoor wreath-laying with representatives of the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Air Force, British Officers Club of New England, British and Commonwealth Remembrance Project, and the New England Kiwis (New Zealand).

Here in Boston, the Sons of Liberty responded by organizing protests and staging attacks on custom houses and the homes of tax collectors.

Their famous rallying cry was “no taxation without representation.”

When Old North’s former rector, William H. Dewart, visited London’s St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe (St. Ann Blackfriars) in 1936, he noted that Old North was nearly identical to the Wren-designed church.

He warned his admirers that they would “be sorry when they saw his handwriting.”

Roosevelt attended services at Old North, but as he was hoping to make a quick exit to attend a luncheon, his plans were derailed by a throng of autograph seekers. He spent 30 minutes signing every letter, paper, and even pages torn from Old North’s hymnals.

More than 1,100 people were laid to rest in the crypt's 37 tombs.

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