1898

  • Henrietta Sargent, daughter of our benefactor Mary Robeson Sargent (1847-1919) and Charles Sprague Sargent, married architect Guy Lowell at St. Paul’s Church, Brookline.   CSS has a botanical legacy in the Professor Sargent camellia, which was released in 1908.
  • April 19.  Francis R. Allen‘s plans were approved and work began on the expansion. The plan shows a pre-existing extension from the chapel to include a two-story parish house including offices and a bathroom on the first floor for the rector and parish administrator.
  • Florence R. Rhodes rented a cottage on Sandy Pond in Lincoln MA as a summer camp for girls of Church of the Ascension, which was run by Deaconess Henrietta Goodwin and Helen E. Moulton, intern from the NY Training School for Deaconesses.