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The first meeting of the Universal Baptist church took place in a living room at 26 Cowen Street led by Reverend Frank Gibson and his wife. That was in 1937 and although Sister Lucille Clark was only 5, she remembers the meetings that took place in the house where she grew up. She was there when the church moved over to Congress Street when the living room became too small and she there when the church moved again to South Federal Street in a building that had once served as the living quarters for workers at the Grand Union Hotel. When that building could no longer serve as the Baptists home, they moved to a small building on Grand Ave. and finally to their current location at 25 Washington St. But of course, there is more to the story.