PHOTOS: Sixty years ago, on Dec. 13, 1964, the Unitarian Church at the top of Harvard Common burned to the ground in little more than an hour. It was the fourth church to have stood on this prominent spot at the top of the hill. Built in 1876 in the Queen Anne style popular at the time, the two-story wooden church had an asymmetrical facade, ornate external trim, and a large tower with a spire. It contrasted sharply with the 1840 church it had replaced and with its 1967 colonial revival successor, which looks very much like the 1840 church. During the two and a half years of the building of the new church, parishioners attended services at the Fellowship Building across Elm Street and down the lane from the present church.
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