The West Church, built in 1806 by Asher Benjamin, served as a safe house for the Underground Railroad and later housed the West End library, directed by Fanny Goldstein (1895-1961)
The first home of the Paul Revere Pottery, founded in 1908 by librarian Edith Guerrier (1870-1958) and artist Edith Brown (1880-1932), was in the basement of this building.
