Cambridge/Longfellow Park Chapel destroyed by fire‏

Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 20:13:19 +0000
From: Melanie

Our CES Director sent us an email last night with the video link that was on the news about fire destroying the Longfellow building (thus called because it is directly across the street from Longfellow's home). As all of the Trauntveins have attended church in this building in the 70's and 80's I thought you would be interested in the story. This building was the oldest LDS building in the Boston area. It was a beautiful building. I have attended many events there. 

Dear All,

Here's a video of the fire that destroyed our institute and the historic Longfellow Park Chapel yesterday. We managed to save the irreplaceable contents of our institute library, but most of the rest of our institute was destroyed by water damage. Thankfully no one was hurt. Events like this sure 
help you to put things into perspective.

Thanks for all your sympathetic responses.

Love,

Tomm

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/video/19487236/index.html

From Myrna

That is really sad. I loved that old historic building. This news just breaks my heart. I have such happy memories of visiting the church and attending meetings there. We only visited a couple of times but those memories are good ones. I hope they try to rebuild it like it was. It was really nice of the Quakers to offer their building as temporary storage for the books. Love, M