BRYAN EATON/File photos. Over two years of work on renovation of the First Religious Society's church and steele, also known as the Unitarian Church. BRYAN EATON/Staff Photo. The steeple of the Unitarian Universalist Church loomed over downtown Newburyport in a view from the top of the city's housing authority's Sullivan Building in March of 2015. Costs of renovation work on Newburypoprt's tallest and elegant steeple, had doubled at the time with more problems than anticipated.

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