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The Ogden mansion, on the site now occupied by the Newberry Library (Walton Street,
between Dearborn and Clark), was saved partly through the timely application of carpets
soaked in whatever liquid was at hand. The New England (Congregational) and Unity
(Unitarian) Churches, located on the east side of Dearborn and, like the Ogden Home,
facing Washington Square Park, were both destroyed. The New England Church was
built out in the Gothic style of Athens Marble in 1867, and it contained a fragment of
rock both from where the Puritans last worshipped before they left Holland and from
Plymouth Rock. Unity Church was dedicated in 1869.
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The Burnt District 