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St. Mary's Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.

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St. Mary's Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.

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St. Mary's Church. Built in 1829 on Richmond Street, now Rutherford Avenue, near Union Street. Its size was 45 by 133; and there were galleries on three sides. The interior showed patterns and scrolls in fresco on the walls and ceiling, and had several paintings. It was used until the completion of the new St. Mary's Church in 1888. The land was bought from Capt. Archibald McNeil, who had owned all 20 acres of Lynde's Point before 1800 and kept a large mansion on what is now Washington Street when he sold 2 acres in 1814 to Col. Samuel Jacques and the rest to several of the most distinguished citizens of Charlestown. The first Roman Catholic Church in Boston was erected only a few years before, in 1803.
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