St. Stephen's Church
New North Meeting House
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St. Stephen's Church
The North End’s changing ethnic and religious groups always had a good friend in St. Stephen’s Church. Originally called “New North” (to distinguish it from nearby “Old North”), it was founded by “seventeen substantial mechanicks” as a Congregational parish before the Revolution. It was Unitarian when Charles Bulfinch designed the present building in 1804, and 58 years later when the North End was mostly Irish, it was given a new Catholic identity and its new name. This is the only Bullfinch church still standing in Boston.
North End
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[Relief image of the church ]
On this site was erected in 1714, the New North Meeting House, the second church in the North End of Boston. Enlarged in 1730, rebuilt in 1802 from the design of Charles Bulfinch.
This tablet placed by the City of Boston, 1930.
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Since 1862 St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church renovated and restored in 1965 to original Charles Bulfinch design by Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston
Chester B. Wright, AIA, architect. Thomas O’Connor & Co., contractor
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St. Stephen’s Church
Boston, Mass.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
July 22, 1890 - January 22, 1995
Baptized July 23, 1890
A Mass of the Resurrection January 24, 1995
“...the most important element in human life is faith.”
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Marker is on Hanover Street north of Clark Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
