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====Cambridge====
* [[Cambridge Gospel Hall, MA]] (AA/CA OB) +1922-1936+
** Shawmut Avenue Gospel Hall +1922-1927+; Cambridge Gospel Hall +1936+;
** @ 608 Shawmut Ave., Boston +1922+; 714-A Shawmut Ave., Boston +1926-1927+; 888 Main St., Cambridge +1936+
** c/o Joseph A. Cox @ 332 Concord Ave., Cambridge +1922-1927+; James Swan, 8 Field St. +1936+
* [[Framingham Gospel Hall, MA]] (OB) +1922-1936+
** Framingham Gospel Hall +1922+; +1936+; Believer's Meeting Room +1927+;
** @ 81 Franklin St. +1926-1927+; 100 Beech St. +1936+
** c/o Hamilton Bros., 120 Tremont St., Boston +1922+;
** c/o Olin Fisk Herrick +1926-1936+ (b. 1881 Wilbraham, Hampden, MA - d. 1958 Shrewsbury, Worcester, MA), son of William Braman Herrick (b. 1855 CT) & Lucy A. Fisk Herrick (b. 1852 Southampton, MA - d. 1923 Auburndale, MA).
*** William B. Herrick was a son of William Henry Herrick (b. 1822 Cattaraugus Co., N.Y. - d. 1886 Marlborough, MA) & Tryphena Stratton Herrick (b. 1828 Elmore, Lamoille, VT - d. 1909 Boston, MA). The senior William was a Methodist pastor, serving Blandford, Hampden, MA in 1860.
*** Lucy was a daughter of Franklin Fisk (b. 1814 Framingham, MA - d. 1896 Auburndale, MA), who retired as a Methodist Episcopal pastor, including in Stoughton (1840-1841). She was active in the Auburndale UMC, and a treasurer of a teachers' agency in Boston. She was a great-grand-daughter of Moses Fisk (b. 1746 Natick - d. 1810 Framingham, MA), who "responded to the Lexington Alarm from Natick" in 1775 which was the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
====Brockton====
* [[Brockton Gospel Hall, MA]] (OB) +1926-1936+
** @ 45 Martland Ave. +1926-1927+; Community Hall, Fern St. (off Pleasant St.) +1936+;
** c/o John E. Glenn @ 781 Maine St. +1926-1927+; George F. Piers, 29 Perkins Ave., Campello, Brockton +1936+
** [https://omeka.religiousecologies.org/files/original/568035e356e49492fac69bcdb5442be74b70107c.jpg 1926 USCoRB] indicated that there were 22 in fellowship (10 men, 12 women) including 2 S.S. teachers, presiding over 14 children (for a total of 36). The Hall had a value of $2,500 with a debt of $2,100 (with $482.71 in expenses), and $50.00 was additionally spent towards the Lord's work in 1926.
* [[Boylston Street Gospel Hall, MA]] (OB) +1936-1937+
** @ 739 Boylston St., Room 309
** c/o William Huss +1936-1937 (b. 1878 Newark Heights, Essex, [[New Jersey|N.J.]] - d. 1937 Arlington Heights, Middlesex, MA), son of Henry Charles Huss & Ann Tompkins Huss; Itinerant evangelist. 1925-1937 lived @ Arlington Heights. Wife: Florence Jean Preston Cran-Huss (b. 1881 Suffolk Co., MA - d. 1962 Arlington, MA), daughter of Henry M. Preston (b. 1842 Chester, N.H. - d. 1920 Middleton, Essex, MA) & Hannah Peaslee Whitten-Preston (b. 1842 Sandwich, Carroll, N.H. - d. 1883 Milton, Norfolk, MA). Henry Preston was a Civil War veteran; Children: *** Virginia Cran Farrar (b. 1916 Seattle, [[Washington|WA]] - d. 2007 Scarborough, Cumberland, [[Maine|ME]]). Her father was Florence Huss' 1st husband John Newell Cran (b. 1882 Hyde Park, Suffolk, MA - d. 1917 Seattle, WA). Husband: George Otis Farrar (b. 1906 Boston, MA - d. 1986 Portland, Cumberland, ME), son of George Henry Farrar (b. 1840 Marlborough, Cheshire, [[New Hampshire|N.H.]] - d. 1915 Boston, MA) & Carrie Frances Nichols Farrar (b. 1871 Dorchester, Suffolk, MA - d. 1950 Brighton, MA). George, Sr. was a hotel proprietor in 1910 in Boston, and a son of Minot Farrar & Mabel Barnes Farrar.
* [[Cliff Street Gospel Hall, MA]] (OB) +1904-1936+
** Willard Hall; Cliff Street Gospel Hall +1911-1936+; Boston Gospel Hall;
** @ 515 Tremont St. +1904+; 24 Cliff Street, Roxbury +1911-1936+
** c/o Samuel Shillady +1922+ (b. 1858 Drumgooland, Co. Down, Ireland - d. 1931 Boston, MA)
==Providence, [[Rhode Island|R.I.]] / Warwick, MA metro==
===Bristol County===
====Attleboro====
* [[Attleboro Assembly, MA]] (OB) +1941+
** @ 3 Knight Ave.
*** 1939: home of Ernst Johan Qvarnstrom (b. 1871 Sweden, emig. 1891, d. 1945 Attleboro, MA); Wife (1899 @ Attleboro, MA): Mabel Wilmarth Shaw, daughter of Joseph Blossom Shaw (b. 1859 Fairhaven, Bristol, MA - d. 1913 Attleboro, MA) & Emily Bicknell Shaw (b. 1859 R.I. - d. 1950 Attleboro, MA). In 1899, E.J. co-founded a plated jewelry manufacturer known as Carter, Qvarnstrom & Remington, which employed 75 operatives, and specialized in lockets, as per a [https://www.rmlonline.org/sites/rmlonline.org/files/attachments/Stone%20chapter%20xiv.pdf 1930 history] on jewelry businesses in Attleboro.
*** 1942: home of Howard Earl Vaslet (b. 1909 Pawtucket, R.I. - d. 1991 Attleboro, MA), son of George J. Vaslet (1881-1956) & Carrie M. Corrigan Vaslet (1885-1977); Wife: Loretta Cardinal Vaslet (b. 1914 CT - d. 2012 Attleboro, MA).
*** No phone books available for 1940-1941.
** c/o Arthur Ord Stebbings (b. 1908 Bradford, Manchester, [[England|Eng.]] - d. 1999 Attleboro, MA), son of Osborne Henry Stebbings (b. 1874 Suffolk Twaite) & Mary Elizabeth Dixon Stebbings (b. 1874 Bradford, Manchester, Eng. - d. 1951 Central Falls, R.I.). Wife: Ceinwyn Wheatley Stebbings (b. 1908 Pawtucket, R.I. - d. 1998 Attleboro, MA), daughter of Joseph Henry Wheatley (b. 1884 Derby, Eng. - d. 1959 Johnston, Providence, R.I.) & Margaret Ellen Hunt Wheatley (b. 1886 Llwynpia, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales - d. 1920 Pawtucket, R.I.).
*** Arthur & his brother Frank Matheson Stebbings (b. 1906 Bradford, Eng. - d. 1997 Warwick, Kent, R.I.) owned the Hope Printing Co. which printed stationery, commercial and job printing, advertising cards, and office supplies. It was located at 126 Union in 1942, which is where Arthur lived. In 1939, the Hope office was at 149 Pine, Arthur lived @ 287 S. Main, and Frank @ 217 Lowden, Pawtucket, R.I. Frank's wife was Edith May Shelburne Stebbings (b. 1916 Chicago, [[Illinois|IL]] - d. 1982 Providence, R.I.)
====Fall River====
* [[Fall River Gospel Hall, MA]] (OB) +1904-1936+