St. Mary's Catholic Church (Massachusetts)
| St. Mary's Catholic Church | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The church in 2010 |
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| location | Winchester , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 27 '15.8 " N , 71 ° 8' 1.2" W | ||
| surface | 20,567 ft² (1,910.7 m² ) | ||
| Built | 1876 | ||
| architect | Patrick W. Ford | ||
| Architectural style | Gothic revival | ||
| NRHP number | 89000625 | ||
| The NRHP added | 5th July 1989 | ||
The St. Mary's Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church building in Winchester in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . Erected in 1876 in what was then the Irish American quarter, the structure belongs to the Archdiocese of Boston and was included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 .
architecture
The building was constructed from wood in 1876 and transformed into its present appearance in 1897 by the church architect Patrick W. Ford by structurally redesigning the church and clad the outside with masonry bricks , while inside large parts of the wooden structure were preserved. The attached tower in particular corresponds to the architectural style of the late 19th century. The church has many cornices resting on consoles , decorative buttresses on the long sides and pointed arches over windows and doors. The belfry on the upper floor of the tower was rebuilt in 1907. At the beginning of the 20th century, a small library was built south of the church, which is now used as a baptistery .
Historical meaning
In 1876, the church building that still exists today replaced the wooden chapel on the same site that had been erected just two years earlier and was the first church building of the Roman Catholic Church in Winchester. The Irish American community in Winchester grew rapidly in the mid-19th century, largely due to the neighborhood's proximity to the city's industries and the railroad; In 1865, 12 percent of Winchester residents said they were born in Ireland , and that percentage changed little into the early 20th century.
See also
literature
- Henry Simonds, Carol Ely: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Form. (PDF) Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1978, accessed on May 29, 2017 (accessible via the "NR" button).