Built in 1828, this church is the fourth edifice to house the town's earliest congregation and the resting place of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and First Ladies Abigail Adams and Louisa Catherine Adams. John Adams endowed the building and specified that it be a "Temple of stone" built of Quincy granite. In 1826, John Quincy Adams proposed that the church become the permanent resting place of his parents, calling for "a plain and modest monument" that "may yet be as durable as the walls of the Temple, and as the Rocks of his Native Town." In 1852, the church also became the resting place of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams.