Black-and-white photograph of Main Street. Storefronts and the Edwards Church can be seen. The Edwards Church is white with a slanted roof and a bell tower. Horses and carriages can be seen on the side of the road. There appears to be snow on the ground and the trees in view are bare.
The Edwards Church (1833-1870) stands at right in this 1867 photograph of Merchants Row, Main St., Northampton, MA, c. 1850. Historic Northampton (ID no. 55.200).
Wood sculpture of the face and tie of Jonathan Edwards. The sculpture is in a cartoonish style, with white curls styled like a wig framing his face. The paint is wearing, but Edwards' face is still a peachy color and his eyes appear to be faded blue.
Photograph of the carving of Jonathan Edwards on the wall of Edwards Church. Edwards is drawn in a cartoonish style, and is tilting his head down with his eyes closed in a contemplative manner. His finger is pointing to the sky.

Image on left: Wood sculpture of Jonathan Edwards, carved by C. Keith Wilbur in 1982. Image on right: Carved stone tile depicting Jonathan Edwards on the outside transept wall of the Edwards Church along the State Street sidewalk.

The Edwards Church (Right most building) was founded in 1833 when the number of parishioners outgrew the First Congregational Church. The church was named in honor of Jonathan Edwards. The 1833 white Greek Revival church stood on the corner of Main and South Streets (now Old South Street). On May 19, 1870, it was destroyed by a fire that began in a neighboring building. In 1872, a brick church designed by William Fenno Pratt was built at a new site – the corner of State and Main streets. By the 1950s, the structure needed costly repairs. Instead of repairing it, the current Edwards Church building was built in its place in 1958.

A craved stone tile depicting Jonathan Edwards appears on the outside transept wall of the Edwards Church along the State Street sidewalk. It is one of four carved stones located at the base of a stone cross depicting scenes from early religion in the area. The other three stones depict the Mayflower, Reverend Thomas Hooker, and the Haystack Prayer Meeting of 1806 in Williamstown, MA.

For the Edwards Church’s 150th anniversary, Northampton resident C. Keith Wilbur carved a wood sculpture of Jonathan Edwards in 1982. The sculpture has toured nationally and has been widely reproduced on book covers, conference announcements, and websites relating to Edwards. A member of the Edwards Church, Keith Wilbur and his wife Ruth Wilbur, wrote Bid Us God Speed: The History of the Edwards Church of Northampton, Massachusetts 1833 / 1983.