{"product_id":"heritage-series-three-churches-holiday-ornament","title":"Three Churches · Three Doors, One Lawn · Heritage Holiday Ornament","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merlinclassics.store\/collections\/heritage-ornaments\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center;background:#F0EAD6;color:#0B0B0B;border:1px solid #000000;padding:12px 16px;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMore Heritage Ornaments\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree Churches.\u003c\/strong\u003e Three white steeples lined up across a wide lawn, bare trees between them, a clear winter sky. Nearly every American town older than the railroad has a common like it, and everyone else has seen the postcard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly New England towns were laid out around a common, the open ground where the militia drilled, the market set up, and the meeting house stood. Three historic churches side by side on one common is rare. The row this is drawn from went up in three years, 1812 to 1815: two Federal-style meeting houses and an unusually early Gothic Revival church, built by congregations that disagreed about a good deal and agreed on the value of a tall church spire. They have shared the same lawn, the same winters and the same overlapping Sunday bells ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a picture of small-town civic life in New England: three doors, one lawn, everybody welcome on the grass. The church architecture changes from door to door; the common stays the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own line drawing, set in crystal so the three spires stay sharp under the lights. Three inches across, one lawn, three steeples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor church historians and volunteers, pastors, town-history societies, and everyone whose hometown still has a common with a white church on it. Profits go to hunger relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaceted crystal, three inches across, with a white back so the line work reads from across the room once the tree is lit. Red ribbon. Boxed in gold or white, your call at checkout. 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