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St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Complex is a historic multi-building church complex at 133 School Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Established as a parish in 1835, it is the city's oldest Roman Catholic establishment. Its 1858 Romanesque Revival church and 1872 Second Empire rectory are particularly fine architectural examples of their styles.
Shortly after St. Mary's Parish was founded in 1870 to serve the Catholics of Newton and Needham, Fr. Michael Dolan purchased a tract of land - "God's Thirty Acres" - in Needham to serve as a parish cemetery. Although the parish of St. Mary's was renamed "Mary Immaculate of Lourdes" at the consecration of the new church building on Thanksgiving ...
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a former parish of the Catholic Church in Waltham, Massachusetts.It is noted for its historic church building, completed in 1922.A high quality example of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture, it is emblematic of the shift on Waltham's south side from a predominantly Protestant population to one of greater diversity.
St. Mary of the Assumption Church (commonly referred to as St. Mary's) is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, in the Archdiocese of Boston. The first church was constructed in Dedham Centre in 1857 and it was formally established as a parish in 1866. In 1880 the parish built a larger church on High Street, towards ...
It was said that "St. Mary's Church, one of the finest edifices in New England, stands as a lasting memorial to Father Fleming's work." [97] His estate totaled $85,000, of which he left $40,000 to the Carney Hospital to pay for four private rooms for St. Mary's parishioners who may become ill.
St. Mary – St. Catherine of Siena is a historic Roman Catholic parish in Charlestown, Massachusetts. It resulted from the 2006 merger of two older parishes, St. Catherine of Siena on Vine St. and St. Mary's on Warren and Winthrop. The parish occupies the latter's building, which was one of the later masterpieces of Patrick Keely.
The parish was founded in 1960 due to overcrowding at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Dedham. [3] By the 1930s St. Mary's was one of the biggest parishes in the Archdiocese with over 6,000 parishioners and 1,300 students in Sunday School. [4] During the middle of that decade there were four priests and six nuns ministering to the ...
Mary's Parish was formed in 1811. [2] The church, built in 1813–14 and restyled in 1838, is the oldest church in Newton, and is a fine example of Gothic Revival / Federal style architecture. [ 3 ] The cemetery, which dates from 1812, [ 4 ] is the oldest non-government-owned cemetery in Newton. [ 5 ]