Major Bibliographical References Books Allen, Chamberlain. Beacon Hill: Its Ancient Pastures and Early Mansions. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925, pp. 58-61, 85-95, 210. The Boston Almanac for the Year 1843, Vol. 1, No. 8. Boston: Thomas Groom & Co., 1843, pp. 112-113 Byre, William. History of the Catholic Church in the New England States. Boston: The Hurd & Everts Co., 1899, pp. 43, 61, 90, 138. Federal Writers' Project of the Work Progress Administration for the State of Maine. Maine: A Guide 'Down East'. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1937, p. 220. Gillespie, C. Bancroft. History of South Boston. South Boston: Inquierer Pub. Co., 1900, pp. 74-76.
Previous documentation on file (NPS): -preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested previously listed in the National Register previously determined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark X] recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # 2-26 Index no: Mass 13 - Boston recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 10. Geographical Data outn Boston UTM References A [1,9] 3311,0 Zone Easting less then one acre SCALE 1:25000 46 416/8166 0 Northing X See continuation sheet Primary location of additional data: -State historic preservation office Other State agency Federal agency Local government University Other Specity repository: St. Augustine Rectory " Zono' Eaurng hornng See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description St. Augustine Cemetery occupies an entire city block in South Boston.
It is bounded on the southeast by Dorchester Street, 120'; on the northeast by W. Sixth Street, 395'; on the northwest by F Street, 115'; on the southwest by Tudor Street, 359': the boundary being the outside edge of a stone wall on Dorchester, Sixth and F Streets, and a chain-link fence on Tudor Street. See continuation sheet Boundary Justification The boundary includes the entire city lot that has historically been associated with the St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery. The stone wall, integral to the site, provides a clear visual limit to the property. Its outer edae and the fence also represent the legal boundary of the site as established in Suffolk Deeds 261:53, 262:58, 276:80, 469:239 (2). 476:270. See continuation sheet 11. Form Prepared By Minxie J. Fannin/Leslie Larson (Fannin/Lehner) organization_Mass.
Historical Commission street & number 80 Boylston Street city or town Boston May7 121-3470 _zip code - 02116 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number3,8 Page - - - St. Augustine's Church, Boston, Massachusetts 3. Category of Property The nomination consisting of the St. Augustine Church and Cemetery is considered an district, not an individual property nomination. Section 8, Significance St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery, South Boston meets National Register Criteria A, B and C. Under criterion B, the Chapel and Cemetery are associated with the extraordinary priest, the Right Reverend John Louis Ann Magdalen Lefebvre de Cheverus, the first Catholic Bishop of Massachusetts as well as with the Reverend Dr.
Francis A, who contributed to the establishment of the Catholic Church in New England (see text of nomination, Section 8, page 1) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number - Page. brick shed with two doors is attached to the northwest elevation of the narthex, providing access to a small cellar. Walls are constructed of red, water-struck brick, laid in common bond with flush mortar joints. No foundation is visible, inside or out. Of three brick chimneys serving interior fireplaces, one is flush with the northwest narthex wall and the other two flank the apse. The roof is gabled, pitched at 49 degrees over the nave and crossing, and at 18 degrees over the transept arms.
A separate gable of about 45 degrees pitch is located over the narthex with the ridge about 4' 6" lower than that of the nave. The apse roof is ellipsoidal and a shed roof covers the sacristies. The surface material is dark gray asphalt shingles, having replaced the original dark gray slate. Establishing the Gothic Revival style of the building are ten tall, lancet-arched windows, five on each of the northeast and southwest elevations, with 24 over 24 sash. An additional 21 lights are formed by the intersected tracery of mullions within the lancet arch of each window. The twelve-foot-high by four-foot-wide windows represent the Chapel's primary design element. Sills are of painted stone, and single, flush ,rowlock courses of brick edge each of the lancet arches.
Nine smaller, six over six, flat-arched windows are distributed as follows: seven on the narthes (one each NE and SW on level one, two each NE and NW and one SW on level two) and one on each of the northeast and southwest sacristy elevations. There are three entrance doors, one centered in the southeast sacristy wall and the other two on northeast and southwest narthex elevations. All window sash and frames, as well as doors and frames, are of painted wood. There is a single, wood-framed, Gothic-arched, louvered opening in the gable over the apse. The gable is surfaced with asphalt simulated brick. Four white marble tombstones are imbedded in the sacristy walls, three on the southeast and one on the southwest elevations. The principal interior space is roughly cruciform in plan, with a 34 foot nave, a proportionally large transept, and a shallow, elliptical chancel.
Ancillary spaces include a two-level narthex at one end and twin sacristies plus an entry hall at the other. The second-level choir loft over the narthex extends about five feet into the nave, terminating with a wood-panelled parapet and low balustrade. Wall surfaces in the nave, as well as three walls of the transept, are exposed common brick, resulting from removal of horizontal-board wainscotting, lath and plaster, and window casings during the 1970s. The chancel end of the transept and the chancel itself are of painted plaster. The elliptical-arched ceiling continued NPS Form 10-000- (8-88) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number - Page.
running through nave and transept to the chancel is also of painted plaster, as are the flat, pitched portions of the transept arms. Colors are off-white with trim. gray The tall, lancet-arched windows with their mullioned tracery dominate the interior as they do the exterior. Similarly arched transoms over panelled wood sacristy doors on either side of the chancel reinforce this theme. The chancel itself extends into the crossing by way of a platform and balustered wood altar rail. The painted wood, swell-fronted altar stands up three steps against the rear chancel wall. Atop the altar and against a plain ,rectangular reredos is a pedimented tabernacle flanked by gradins.
On either side of the altar, imbedded in the chancel wall, are two Gothic-arched, white marble tablets, memorializing Father Francis Matignon (1753-1818) on the right, and Father Denis 0'Callaghan (1841-1913) on the left. A single chandelier hangs from the center of the crossing and two tierods were installed in the nave during the 1970s. While the floor in the nave and transept is red brick laid flat, a substantial portion is given over to a series of 23 large, rectangular, white marble memorial tablets, of which 20 are closely spaced in two rows in the transept, with the remaining three in the nave. These cover the tombs of selected diocesan priests who died beginning in 1872. A series of French lithographs in wood frames, hanging on the nave and transept walls and serving as stations of the cross, are thought to be part of the original Chapel ensemble.
Iwo rows of open-backed wood pews of fairly recent vintage fill the nave. Walls and ceilings in both levels of the narthex are painted plasteri and the floors are wood. Notable features include a fireplace with a panelled wood mantel and a staircase with a turned wood newel post and balusters on level one, and two rows of solid-backed wood pews, probably dating from the 1830s, in the choir loft. An elliptical-arched opening connects the narthex with the balcony. The two irregularly shaped sacristies have painted plaster surfaces, wood floors, and fireplaces with plain, wood mantels. Behind a door in the northeast sacristy is anøther white marble tablet, largely plastered over.
The Chapel's condition is fair to good, with the primary problems being a condition of rising dampness on the interior brick wall surfaces and the need for temporary reinforcement of the nave walls provided by the two tieroos. Built as a mortuary chapel for Father Francis Anthony Matignon, the original portion of the building, which now constitutes the nave, was dedicated on July 4, 1819. It was sited a few yards northwest of Father Matignon's grave (to which his body was transferred in December of 1818 from the Granary Burying Ground) on the continued NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number 7 Page . two Cemetery lots nearest to Dorchester Street,which were purchased on December 11, 1818,and March 31, 1819.
In 1831, the rectangular Chapel was substantially enlarged by the addition of a narthex to the northwest and a transept, apse,and sacristies to the southeast, covering Father Matignon's tomb in the process. The St. Augustine Chapel is the oldest extant Gothic Revival Roman Catholic Church in New England (the 1808 chapel in Damariscotta Mills, Maine, is round-arched) and one of a very few extant,early 19th century Gothic Revival churches of any denomination. What sets St. Augustine apart from two of its slightly earlier contemporaries, St. John's Church of 1810 in Providence and Trinity Church of 1814-17 in New Haven, is its vernacular simplicity and its execution in brick. Both the Providence and New Haven churches are high style, stone churches with Gothic elements set in classical formats. In contrast to its original pastoral setting, the St.
Augustine Cemetery is today surrounded by a distinctly urban neighborhood. Bounded on all four sides by city streets, its principal entrance opens to the southeast on Dorchester Street, a six-lane, divided thoroughfare lined with abutting and closely spaced twoand three-story frame houses and three-deckers. West Sixth Street, on the northeest, is populated by the one and two-story brick South Boston Boy's Club, a playground and three two-story frame houses. Across F Street, on the northwest, are two three-story frames houses plus a vacant lot; and narrow Tudor Street, to the southwest, is bordered by several one-story masonry garages and a parking lot. With the exception of the 359 foot Tudor Street border, marked by a tall West Sixth Street, and 115 feet along F Street are edged by a five-foot-high Roxbury chain links and barbed wire.
The wall separates in the center along Dorchester and F Streets to accommodate entrances with wrought iron gates and, on Dorchester Street, a Gothic arch with "St. Augustine Cemetery" and a cross also rendered in iron. Each corner is marked by a seven-foot-high puddingstone pier, two of which also flank each entrance and four of which are evenly spaced along West Sixth Street. The St. Augustine Cemetery Association built the wall and pickets after its founding in 1892. The first of six parcels of land making up the present Cemetery was purchased on December 11, 1818. By the end of that year three interments had taken place, with Father Matignon being the first, followed by Susan Alamons, a 15-day-old infant, on December 23rd, and Joseph Kelly on December 31, 1818. The second lot was added on March 31, 1819, but it was not until November 18, 1841, that the block was complete.
The total area is 43,355 square feet, just short of one acre. The site is grass-covered except for a concrete path running northwest from the Dorchester Street gate, encircling the Chapel, and continuing as brick to the F continued OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 NPS Form (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number Z Page - 4 Street gate. toward the northwest. The land is slightly irregular and falls off about two degrees There are very few crypts, other than those beneath the Chapel floor. One sizeable, sodded-over crypt is in evidence along the West Sixth Street wall, immediately opposite the Chapel. It is approached by way of a narrow concrete stair from the path circling the Chapel. Its contents are unknown.
The vast majority of burials are in graves, individually or clustered in family groups, marked by a single stone. These graves and their stones are organized in ranges roughly parallel with FStreet. There are about 639 gravestones. White marble is the predominant gravestone material. Other varieties include granite, sandstone, slate,and bluestone. There is also afieldstone shrine abutting the Tudor Street fence. Most of the stones are one-sided, flat slabs, al1 facing southeast. A number of the others are four-sided, large and small monuments, including obelisks. Tops are Gothto, flat, round, segmental, pyramidal, and foliated. Incised inscriptions range from "William Davidson 1840-1910" to extensive listings of family members, biographies, and inspirational messages. Designs extend fróm simple crosses to lambs and other figures to elaborate foliation.
The condition of the sbones varies greatly, both in terms of surface erosion and intactness of structure. Many are tilted, some have broken and a few have fallen. There have been several attempts to repair and realign the stones, including the relocation of about 170 stones in 1944 and the repair of a number of them in 1975. Through much of its history the Cemetery was known for its majestic elms. Eventually succumbing to disease, the last were removed in 1975, leaving a scattering of 22 small-to medium-sized trees. Included are elèvên deciduous trees and an equal number of evergreens, mostly yew and arborvitae, but including one fairly tall fir. The majority are to be found in the area between the Chapel narthex and the F Street wall. NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approvel No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cenetery Section number Page - Attracted by the St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery as well as the land development and the presence of a glassworks offering employment, many Boston Irish and subsequent waves of Irish immigrants began to settle in South Boston. The St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery retains this strong association with its location and these early inhabitants formed the nucleaus of the strong Irish Catholic Community of the South Boston of today. The four earliest Catholic churches in New England were all built under the devoted, energetic, and optimistic Bishop Cheverus. The first was the Church of the Holy Cross on Franklin Street (Charles Bulfinch, 1803), now demol ished.
The second, and now oldest extant Catholic Church in New England, is St. Patrick's (1808), a brick chapel with a bell fashioned by Paul Revere, in Damariscotta Mills, Maine. The fourth church, which still survives, was built just before Bishop Cheverus returned to France in 1823; it is Old St. Mary's, also brick, in Claremont, New Hampshire. Two further early churches were erected under the auspices of Bishop Benedict Fenwick, St. Mary's in Charlestown (1828), followed by the plain brick St. Patrick's (1836) on Northampton Street in the South End, neither of which survive. The St. Augustine Chapel (1818) is the second Catholic Church in Massachusetts to be built and the third in New England. It now is the oldest surviving Catholic church in Massachusetts and the second oldest in New England. The major period of significance for the St.
Augustine Chapel extends from 1818, the date it was built, until 1874, the year the Church of St. Augustine was dedicated. These years span a period of major church building in South Boston to service the needs of the growing Irish immigrant population in that section of the city. ma jor period of significance for the Cemetery ranges from 1818, with the first burial of Father Matignon, to the 1880s, after which burials were sporadic. A major milestone of the Chapel came when the swelling South Boston population necessitated another Parish church. The St. Augustine Chapel was enlarged in 1831 and dedicated on October 16 of the same year. Consecrated by Bishop Fenwick in 1833, regular church services were held at the Chapel from 1833 to 1844. By 1840, however, it became clear that the number of Catholic residences in the area was still increasing and a still larger church was necessary.
The Church of SS. Peter and Paul (Gridley J.F. Byrant) was dedicated on July 13, 1845, and the St. Augustine Chapel was no longer needed for regular services. Three years later, on September 8, 1848, there was a severe conflagration at SS. Peter and Paul and repairs were hurriedly made to the Chapel to accommodate that congregation. From 1848 until the rededication of the SS. Peter and Paul Church on November 24, 1853, regular services were once aga in held at the Chapel. Despite the 1848 repairs and renewed use, the Chapel was described as "rapidly going in decay" in 1851 (Simonds, p. 162). It was also during this period in 1850 that the city council passed an ordinance forbidding further burials in the St. Augustine Cemetery.
Due to the astute actions of John Bernard Fitzpatrick, the Third Bishop of Boston, this ordinance and further attempts of the legislature deny burlals were repulsed and any family still holding title to a cemetery deed may request to be buried there. From 1868 to 1871, St. Augustine's Chapel was used one last time as a parish church. When Rev. Denis 0'Callaghan received the assignment to form the new St. Augustine Parish and build the new church of St. Augustine, he decided to repair the St. Augustine Chapel, which was in "ruinous condition" (Sullivan, Archdiocese of Boston, p. 84), and gather the congregation for the new continued NPS Form 10-900-a (8-88) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number 8 Page ~ church.
Regular church services were held at the Chapel from September 6, 1868, until July 2, 1871, when the first Mass was offered in the basement of the new Church of St. Augustine. Following the dedication of the Church of St. Augustine (Patrick Charles Keely) on August 30, 1874, a recurring pattern began in the history of the St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery. As each major anniversary approached, an earnest effort was made to repair and restore the two resources. In 1892, the St. Augustine's Cemetery Improvement Association, later called the St. Augustine's Chapel and Cemetery Association, composed of descendants of those who lie buried there, was formed especially for the care and preservation of the grounds and monuments.
The Association built the present stone wall, iron arched entrances, and picket fence in time for the 75th Anniversary of the dedication of the Chapel and Cemetery on September 24, 1894 ,which was attended by Archbishop John Joseph Williams. Again, in 1918, the Chapel was in poor condition: "spalled-edge slates ... bare roofing boards -.. broken window panes" (Warren, The Boston Herald, August 11, 1918) and some repairs were made for the October 26, 1919,Centennial of the Chapel, presided over by Cardinal William O'Connell. Iwo thousand people attended the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Chapel on July 4, 1944,with Bishop Richard J. Cushing as orator; also included were the South Boston War Service Flag Dedication and Memorial Exercises, the dedication of new headstones from the Veterans of the Civil War,and an elaborate parade.
This latter celebration was preceded by over 15 months of restoration work on the Chapel and the moving of over 170 gravestones that had become dislocated through the years. In 1975, the St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery were of the Boston Bicentennial, leading to a flurry of dead tree removal, the stabilization of at least 50 monuments, and extensive internal and external repairs. A new effort was launched in 1984 and is continuing into 1987 to accomplish a major restoration/conservation of both the Chapel and the Cemetery - Dr. Francis Anthony Matignon and Bishop John Lefebvre de Cheverus both have significant associations with the St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery; since the Cathedral of the Holy Cross (1803) was demolished, these two resources comprise the only major surviving physical link with these two men.
It was Father Matignon's sudden death from a lung ailment on September 19, 1818, that inspired Bishop Cheverus to create both the St. Augustine Cemetery and Chapel. A former professor of theology at the College of Navarre and an exile of the French Revolution, Father Matignon arrived in Boston on August 20, 1792, to help minister to the approximately one hundred Catholics dwelling in a diocese that comprised the whole of New England from Baltimore to the Canadian border. Joined in 1796 by his former brilliant pupil at the Sorbonne and fellow French exile, the future Bishop Cheverus, the thirty-nine year old Father Matignon labored for twenty-six years in the Boston area, serving as Pastor of the Parish of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross from 1792 until his death in continued NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number -8 Page - 1818. It was under the combined nurturing of Father Matignon and Bishop Cheverus that the Catholic Church took root in New England in general, and Boston in particular. Father Matignon gained esteem, admiration, and affection from the burgeoning Catholic and non-Catholic population alike, and the Columbian Centinel of September 23, 1818, noted that his funeral procession "was the most numerous that has been witnessed here for sometime, estimated at 1000 persons, besides 15 carriages." When Father Matignon died at the age of sixty-five on the fortieth anniversary of his ordination, Bishop Cheverus was overwhelmed with grief saying "Father Matignon died, as he lived, a saint ...
I am left desolate and forlorn." (125th Anniversary Program, July 4, 1944). Frustrated that Father Matignon had to be buried in the Granary Cemetery in Boston, although in the vault of a prominent Catholic of that period, John Magner--who had directed in his will of 1816 that the Catholic Clergy of the Church of the Holy Cross could be so interred, Cheverus resolved to create the St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery. Receiving permission from the Board of Health of the Town of Boston in November 1818, Bishop Cheverus established Boston's first Catholic burying ground. John Lefebvre de Cheverus, at the sincere request of the devoted but aging Father Matignon, was named the first Bishop of Boston on April 8, Pope Pius V11.
Due to the turbulent state of Europe at that time, the official notifications did arrive in Boston until two years later, and on November 1, 1810,he was consecrated Bishop of Boston. A learned man, Bishop Cheverus attended the Boston Athenaeum's Anthology Club and contributed much of his personal library to the Athenaeum. Besides the St. Augustine Cemetery and Chapel, two visible memories of Bishop Cheverus remain in Boston. An 1823 Gilbert Stuart painting of "Bishop Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus" commissioned by the Protestant Mrs. John Gore, now owned by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, was painted just before Bishop Cheverus went back to France.
On the exterior wall of the Oratory of Saint Thomas More, 49 Franklin Street, there is an incised plaque erected by a group of "Protestant Businessmen" in 1950,which honors Bishop Cheverus' role in the establishment of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, adding: "He Stood by the Bedside of Catholic and Protestant Alike." Bishop Cheverus died the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux in 1836. The third person important in the creation of the St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery was Rev. Philip Lariscy, an Irish Augustinian priest, who came from the Canadian Provinces. Given to fiery but compelling sermons, he was described as "a somewhat rough but earnest worker"(Gurney, "A Short History of St. Augustine's Cemetery," p. 4) and raised the $680 necessary for the initial parcels of land for the Cemetery, principally from over 200 parishioners of the Church of the Holy Cross.
A short time later, he raised another $1,700 from 77 subscribers to build the Chapel. In his gratitude to Father Lariscy, Bishop Cheverus named the Chapel and Cemetery in honor of St. Augustine, the patron saint of Father Lariscy's order. The social history of the St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery begins with some of the most prominent names in Federal Boston. Preceding the annexation of Dorchester Neck to Boston in 1804, several Mount Vernon Proprietors, including Harrison Gray Otis, continued NPS Form 10-900-e (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number 8 Page 4 bought up land in what is now called South Boston. In the course of assembling sufficient land for the St.
Augustine Cemetery, Bishop Cherus in 1819 and 1822 bought two parcels from Jonathan Mason, a wealthy lawyer, leader in the development of Beacon Hill, and owner of a Bulfinch-designed mansion. Bishop Fenwick subsequently purchased a parcel from Mason's oldest son, William Powell Mason, in- 184.It s for South Boston landowner Willlam Tudor, the force beh ind the Boston Athenaeum's Monthly Anthology and resident of Bulfinch's Tontine Crescent, that Tudor Street, which forms the southwest boundary of the Cemetery, is named. With the purchases of Bishop Cheverus and Bishop Fenwick, the city block between Dorchester and FStreets,and 6th and Tudor Streets on the north side of Dorchester Heights underwent a dramatic change of use. What was originally the speculative real estate property of certain Boston Bralimins was now extensively used as the first Catholic burying ground.
Starting with Father Matignon in 1819, the Chape1 and Cemetery contain graves of numerous eminent Boston priests while many of the city's Irish immigrants of the early 19th century lie peacefully in the Cemetery. At first the Catholic population of Boston grew slowly, starting with about 100 Catholics at the time of Father Matignon's arrival in 1792, to only about 1,500 in 1816. Up until 1818, Catholics had been buried in such scattered cemeteries Granary, Copps Hill, and the Central Burying Ground on Boston Common. immigration increased in the 1820s; unfortunately, many of these new immigrants were to die in the three Asiatic cholera epidemics of 1832, 1849, and 1854, and in the Ship of Fever of 1846. Burials in the St. Augustine Cemetery greatly increased dur ing this period as Bishop Fenwick forbade long processions to the Bunker Hill Cemetery in Charlestown.
Then came the great Potato Famines of Ireland in the 1840's and thousands of Irish immigrants began to arrive in Boston. Many of the gravestones in the St. Augustine Cemetery bear such Irish names as Meehan, Brogue, Brady, Burke, and Flanagan. These are the immigrants who came to Boston in crowded sailing ships from the Irish counties of Limerick, Sligo, Wicklow, Lonegal, Kerry, Kildare, Tipperary, and Waterford. These markers record a capsulated version of history of the Irish in Boston, forby the end of the nineteenth century, South Boston had become the most overwhelmingly Catholic and Irish part of Boston. There are many persons of interest buried both inside the St. Augustine Chapel and in the St. Augustine Cemetery. Opposite the gravestone of Father Matignon on the gospel side (left) of the altar is the large gravestone of the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Denis 0'Callaghan 91841-1913), the last priest to be buried within the Chapel. Invested as a Monsignor in 1901, Rev. O'Callaghan, the much-loved pastor of the Church of St. Augustine from 1868 to 1913, was the man responsible for repairing the St. Augustine's Chapel and reopening it as a regular place of worship from 1868 to 1871. Twenty-three other priests born in widely separated areas of the United States lie buried in the red brick vaulted floor, all influential in promoting the growth of Catholicism in Boston. Sister St. Henry, an ursuline nun, was buried Peneath tsanChagürnergor in an unknown location in 1843, her funeral attended by The four headstones that are built into the exterior walls of the St. continued NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number 8 Page 5 Chapel and appear on Drawing No. 2 of Survey No. 2-26 of the Historic American Buildings Survey are still intact today. The rectangular stone on the right of the "So-West Elevation" is that of Mrs. Celeste Robin Delogny (died 1824), who was noted for her many charitable acts. The headstones of three distinguished Catholic priests appear on the "So-East Elevation." To the left is Rev. John Mahoney (died 1839), curate of the Church of the Holy Cross and priest of the St. Augustine Chapel from 1833 to 1836,followed by the stone of Rev. Patrick Byrne (died 1844), ordained in 1820 and the first pastor of Old St. Mary's Church in Charlestown. The stone on the Ton debe stet paytor of ond st. St.
Hary ta Cruci in e (20 3. right is that of Rev. James McGuire (died 1850), a native of the county of Cavan, Ireland. Among other notable persons buried in the St. Augustine Cemetery are Rev. Thomas Lynch, the first Pastor of St. Patrick's Church on Northampton Street and , from 1833 to 1836, the resident priest at the St. Augustine Chapel. The large Rev. Thomas J. O'Flaherty (died 1846) monument stands just outside the Chapel door, honoring the controversy with Rev. Lyman Beecher in 1831. The talented journalist-businessman and founder of The Pilot, Patrick Donahoe (died 1901), also lies in the Cemetery. Robert Magner (died 1823-25), nephew of John Magner in whose tomb Father Matignon was temporarily interred, and one of the principal doñors to the Church of the Holy Cross is buried in the St. Augustine Cemetery along with Thomas Murray, the first sexton of the St.
Augustine Chapel and close friend of Father Matignon and Bishop Cheverus. Iwo additional interesting figures are Jack Barry (died 1890) (photo no. 9), color sergeant for the 9th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers, Civil War veteran, and the first Irish policeman, and Rev. D. S. A. Mahoney (1850-1911), founder of the Working Boy's Home in Chicago. Also buried in the Cemetery are the parents of both the third Bishop of Boston, John Bernard Fitzpatrick, and the fourth Bishop of Boston, John Joseph Williams. In summary, the St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery are noted as the earliest surviving resources of the beginnings of the Catholic Church in Massachusetts.
They gain further significance in their association with the founders of the Catholic Church in New England, Father Francis Matignon and Bishop John Lefebvre Cheverus as well as with the growth and development of the Irish neighborhood of South Boston. The Chape1 is of added importance as a representative building type and the oldest surviving NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery, South Boston, MA Section number Page OMB Approval No. 10240018 Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants. Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 1959, PP. 164-165. J. Smith. History & Sketches of Boston From 1630 to 1856. Boston: F. C. Moore & Co., 1856, p. 113. Allen and Dumas Malone. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Vol. IV, pp. 61-62, vol.
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Concord: The Rumford Press, 1974. Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston: A Topographical History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968, p. 75-76. Winsor, Justin. Memorial History of Boston. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1880-1881, PP. 516-520, 525, 528. (IPS Form 10-800-a. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery, South Boston, MA Section number 9 Page 2 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Newspapers and Periodicals The Boston Daily Globe Rogers, David. "Restoring old cemetery could help S. Boston to its feet." February 5, 1975. White, Laura. "In Hub's Ist Catholic cemetery, time has long been on hold." December 14, 1984, PP. 25, 27. The Boston Herald "Around Town - An August Tradition." November 25, 1976. Perry, Allan. "St. Augustine's Parish - Rich in O1d Tradition." March 16, 1941. Warren, W.
M. "St. Augustine's Chapel - A Noteworthy Boston Document - Little Known, This Picturesque Structure Deserves Fame and Recalls Much Catholic History." August 11, 1918. Boston Irish Echo: "Drive Started to Save Hub's Oldest Church." November 3, 1984. "Patrick Donahoe - Apostle of the Irish in America." July 5, 1986. Boston Sunday Post:"To Celebrate Centennial of O1dest Catholic Church." October 19, 1919. The Boston Traveler Dever, Joseph. "St. Augustine's Fortress of Catholic Religion; Chapel Marked Beginning of South Boston Church." March 14, 1967. "Memorial Services to be Held in O1d St. Augustine's Church Monday." August 27, Rowel1, Paul L. "Task of Restoring St. Augustine Chapel, 125-Year-Old Shrine, Nears Completion." May 24, 1944. Columbian Centinel: September 23, 1818, p. 2, col. 4; July 3, 1819, p. 2, col. The Pilot "Anniversary of Chapel in So. Boston." July 1, 1944.
Gurney, William John. "Boston's Backgrounds." June 30, 1956. South Boston Tribune Dauwer, Leo Paul. "A Model of Antiquity." January 12, 1978. "Drive Underway to Restore St. Augustine Chapel." April 3, 1975. NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number 9 Page 3 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Deeds October 2, 1809: "Division of Land in South Boston." Gardiner Greene, Jonathan Mason et al. (230:107-140). June 30, 1809: "Plan of a Part of South Boston." (230-End). December 11, 1818: Zacheriah G. Whitman of Boston, Esq. to Rt. Rev. Dr. John Cheverus, R. C. Bishop in Boston. (261:53). March 31, 1819: Jonathan Mason of Boston, Esq. to Rt. Rev. Dr. John Cheverus, R. C. Bishop in Boston. (262:58). April 8, 1822: Jonathan Mason of Boston, Esq. to Rt. Rev.
Dr. John Cheverus, Catholic Bishop of Boston. (276:80). June 29, 1841: William Powel1 Mason of Boston, Esq. to Benedict Fenwick, Bishop of Boston. (469:239). June 29, 1841: Mary B. Parkman of Boston, Gentlewoman to Benedict Fenwick, Bishop of Boston. (469:239). November 18, 1841: John Pickering et al Trustees of the Warren Association to Benedict Fenwick of Boston. (476:270). Letters Rev. John Cheverus to Abp. Carrol1. July 30, 1808. Father John P. Coffey to Most Rev. Thomas V. Daily. March 4, 1975. (Very Rev.) James I. Cotter to St. Augustine's Parish re fire in cemetery chapel. March 7, 1956. Rev. John A. Dooher to Katherine D. Kane. April 14, 1975. Chancellor J. F. Minihan to Rev. Harry M. O'Connor. April 10, 1946. St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery records and scrapbooks. "Dedication of New Headstones to the Veterans of the Civil War." May 28, 1944. "Dreams of the Past," 1844.
Sheet music cover. John Magner's Will. Suffolk Probate, No. 24838. (died January 4, 1816). "An Old Land Mark Opened To The Public." (pre-1975). "Radio Address - W.C.O.P." Delivered July 1, 1944. "Saint Augustine's Historic God's Acre." (c.1918). "75th Anniversary of the Dedication of St. Augustine's Chapel." September 27, Boston War Service Flag Dedication and Memorial Exercises on 125th Anniversary of the Blessing of St. Augustine's Chapel. July 4, 1819." July 4, 1944. (UPS Form 10-800-a. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Section number 9 Page 4 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Misc. Building Subscription Account Book. 1802-1827. Includes fragmentary information on subscriptions for the purchase of St. Augustine's church and cemetery. Cemetery Records, St.
Augustine's Cemetery. Introduction to "Copies of Gravestones. 1819-1850." Massachusetts Works Progress Administration photographs, 1937 Whitehill, Walter Muir. A Memorial to Bishop Cheverus: with a Catalogue of the Books Given by Him to the Boston Athenaeum. Boston: Boston Athenaeum, Unpublished Manuscripts Connolly, Florence. "Saint Augustine's Chapel, South Boston." Harvard University, 1952. Typescript. (Graduate School of Design, Harvard University). Gurney, William John. "A Short History of St. Augustine's Cemetery", 1953. (Boston Public Library). 0'Connor, Thomas. excerpts from A History of South Boston, 1987. Iypescript. (Author). O'Dwyer, George F. "Stone Inscriptions in St. Augustine's vemetery, South Boston 1819-1900." Manuscript. (Copied by George F. O'Dwyer, Lowell, Mass., for the Boston Athenaeum).
Location of primary materials (cont.) Boston Archdiocese Archives Boston Athenaeum Boston Landmarks Commission Boston Public Library Suffolk County Registry of Deeds ST. AUGUSTINE CHAPEL AND CEMETERY List of Photographs with Camera Direction 1. Dorchester Street entrance, to northwest 2. Wall and Chapel from West 6th Street, to west 3. Chapel (northwest and southwest elevations) and Cemetery, to east 4. Southeast portion of Cemetery and Chapel, Dorchester entrance, to east 5. Northwest portion of Cemetery, to north 6. Southeast (apse) elevation of Chapel, to northwest 7. Gravestone details and east corner of Chapel, to northwest 8. Gravestones and southwest elevation of Chapel, to northwest 9. Jack Barry gravestone, to northwest 10. Chapel interior: chancel from balcony, to southeast 11. Chapel interior: nave toward narthex, to northwest 12.
Chapel interior: transept floor, memorial tablets, to southeast Chapel interior: chancel, Matignon memorial tablet, to south 14. Chapel interior: southeast sacristy, fireplace, to northwest 15. Chapel interior: choir loft, to west Photos 1 through 9: see assessors map NC-WEST WALL SO-WEST WALL - INTERIOR ELEVATIONS OF NARTHEX - SS-E-ST WAL LOSSING FLOOR #: +32 -0,et NARTHE «)*+ - NAVE - CRCSEA= 1. a TEL- 453. Cacss - 6'0° 4*-5'54 4'0]' 5'6 - EALCC'N- FLCOR PLAN - - t' 6° - MAIN FLOCR PLAN - 34'c' =30S57EQ5 SCALE O: =EE- SLEVATIONS - O CASC E=: E OF R:D0E + - BUILT-1818- ST-AUGUSTINE CHAPEL-SOUTH BOSTON-SUFFOLKCO-MASS- 2-26 1o6 - SO-WEST ELEVATION - Clith SO-EAST ELEVATION - - NO-WEST ELEVATION - TITO CASCIERI DEL. UI s1r-y.-c. - BUILT - 18:g . BUTINE, CHOPEL ad SEMETERT, SOUTH ZORTON.
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FLOCRIL BESTONESLL -SUILT-IEIE- TSIAUGUSTNE HTREL - GN CEMETERY,-SOUTI BOSTON Bnt 734$ 67891 CENTIMETERS SCALÉOFINCHES DETAILS -- L15506 + LF DETAIL OF - PEW IN - BALCONY WOOD PAINTED DARK BROWN K-K J-J vu WCCD ALTAR & TABERNACLE PAINTED WHITE K- $40} WALNUT BALUSTRADE -PS- 21:8- FRONT ELEVATION -ALTAR- ve. CCD STEPS CCVEREC WITH GR'EEN CARPET C SCALEOF FEET ELEVATIONS TITO CASCIER! US. DOMARTAEIIO DEMTEL L M-M N-N R UJNUI .íe,6 N 4'2g C+- M 351 Mc4[ WEEE MANTEL CAIA-EO ECCWN C.ASTER CACK SIDE DETALCF-LANTEL IN NARTHEX - BUILT-EE- :=3< 8?3ES CESTIVE TRS SCALE CF ACHES CEA LE =686- St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery 23 106 4% 11699 3406 WEST 3 .5237. 7 152- WEST 339/ 1202 1206 1198 FIFTH 3 11208 19, 2:8230 982 982 .525 BOWEN 1044 1|/,000 1115 os SIXTH 17538 1125 5750 1971 2750 -236 ,3 lº54 7579 1654 180C 1675 pos T07 15O0 944% 970.
HH KAO 15G0 12,90 01320 31380 P62 977 26:1011 883 6:-1312 926) 7 1207 1'44) !140 1425 STREE TUDOR 286 2717 1566: 190(B2) WEST LILLY numbers 1- 1180 2326 correspond to SEVENTH 21180 photographs 880g STREET AUGUSTINE CEME TERY «EET 196 /200 (0989 0% 4e0-Pc/ 3025 /395 VI5O 204 2170 10911554 2016 2121547 9003 STREET 2046 2"'7 1983 7357 1121 1252845 BOYS' CLUB 1046 256 SOUTH BOSTOND 2611/2 24,935 9%a 250 /2 $368 1757] 945 866 11289 1264737 1226 -66 700 2c8750 1272733 274760 275 2521000 2512535 C4764 VO18 V1354 STREET 1072 101203 1625 -1025 284/125) STREET 1496 4069 STREETf 1389 :222 2489 STREET STREET 158 60 1166 57, 329 PATRICK F.
GAVIN JR HIGH SCHOOL 21,821 AUGUSTINE R 400 /511 CHURCH 15/9 17.69 1403 361 1319 215 DORCHESTER 20% 200 2001 206 1398 1330 2678 1201 1495 -100 TELEGRAPH 102 2516 1333 387 1480 1633 1474 1575 200 178/609 1801868 ü02" 500 2513 = 1329 1790 2865 2175 1650 770 59995 300 156/70 MERCER 2125 STREE E 1354 170 32,86 206/ 2335 19/21 2125 1870 12125 1870 V870 2125 1870 2/25 1870 1870 12125 189/ 14 J2125 1975 Modo aa 400 /257 500.FT STREET ST. AUGUSTINE CHAPEL AND CEMETERY, BOSTON F Street 115' 60 November 18, 1841 476:270 John Pickering et al Trs. Warren Ass'n -Fenwick, Bishop 4862.90 June 29, 1841 469:239 William Powell Mason to n Benedict = Fenwick, Bishop $718.75 50' 72 June 29, 1841 469:239 Mary B. Parkman to Benedict Fenwick, Bishop $795. 38'4° 6th Street 395' 56' April 8, 1822 276:80 Jonathan Mason to Rt. Rev. John Chevrus "Adjoining the land...approp- riated as a burial ground" $334.
40° March 31, 1819 262:58 Jonathan Mason to Rt. Rev. Dr. John ig Chevrus $276. 89'8" 40' Tudor Street (a 20 foot street) 359' December 11, 1818 Suffolk Deed 261:53 Zacheriah G. Whitman to Rt. Rev. Dr. John Chevrus Lot 63, plan of Stephen Badlam June 30, 1809 $680. 120' Dorchester Street 1201 81' Land Acquisition Plan for St. Augustine's Cemetery, So. Boston 1818 to 1841 block shown on plan of Stephen Badlam, June 30, 1809 related to Division Deed of land at South Boston between Gardiner Greene, Jonathan Mason, Willian Tudor, Joseph Woodward, John Winslow et al, Suffolk Deed 230:107-140, October 2. 1809 87001495 WASO Form - 177 ('R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Suffolk County MASSACHUSETTS Substantive Revlew AUG6 1987 Working No. Fed. Reg.
Date: ( 22/88 Date Due: _ 9/4,87 9/20 18 Action: _LACCEPT 9-18-82 resubmission - RETURN nomination by person or local government _REJECT_ owner objection Federal Agency: appeal Substantive Review: J sample -request Lappeal ANR decision Reviewer's comments: important as the oldest suvriing Catholic optremely nassachusets and the first hecom./Critria Reviewer Archutectural History condnuation, Nomination returned for: - - technical corrections cited below Oarification. substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition Status Accessible Present Use 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? yes no 7.
Description Condition J excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one unaltered altered Check one J original site moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _national state local State Historic Preservation Officer signature date title 13. Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Signed - Date Phone: _ GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet KUCUSTI FOUNDED 1818 ST. AUGUSTINES CHAPE ARCHDIOCESE'S OLDEST CATHOLIC CHI CHAPEL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ON HOLY D STAUGUSTINE CHAPEL ICEMETERY BOSTON, MA LESLIE LARSON, PHOTO 3/12/87 BosToN O DORCHESTER ST ENTRANCO - TONW 2 NO:1 ST.AUGUSTINE CHAPEL", CEMETERY BOSTON, MA LESLIE LARSON PAOTO 3|12|87 GJOY ST. BOsTON FROM GTH ST., WALLA CHAPEL- TOM NO: 2 STIAUGUTINE CHAPEL &CEMETERY BOSTON,MA LESUE LARÇON PHOTO 3/12/87 6J04 ST.
BOSTOM CHANEL (NNY&.SIV ELEVS) $ CEMETERY - TO LAST Nos 3 R Street Cleaning 2nnoom : a plonda STIAUGUSTINE CHAPEL E CEMETERY BOSTON, MA LESLIE LARSON PHOTO 3|12|87 GJOYSTIbOSTON SE PORTION OF CEMETERY ICHAPEL- DORCHESTER ENT NO: 4 ST.AUGUSTINE CHAPELI CEMETERY BOSTON, MA LESLE LARGON PHOTO 312/87 GJO4 ST. BOSTOM NIV PORTION OF CEMETERY- TONORTH NOs 5 ST.AUGUSTINE CHAPEL A CEMETORY BOSTON, MA LESLELARSOM PHOTO 3|6/87 GJO4 STi BOSTON SE (ARSE) ELEV. OF CHAPEL- TONW NOSG MARYABUTIR - ST.AUGUSTIHE CHAPEL I CEMETERY BOSTON, MA LEGLIE LARSON PHOTO 3/6/87 GJOY ST. BOSTON GRAVESTONE DETAILS TERST CORNER OF CHAPEL. Nos 7 S 39. 1. STAUGUSTINE CHAPELE CEMETERY BOSTON, MA LESLIELARSON PHOTO 3|12/87 GTO4 ST. BOSTON GRAVESTONES & SWELEVO OF CHAPEL- TONIY NO: 8 FATHEE MOTHER ACK COLOR SERCEANT ST RECT M.VEM 1822 - 1890 ERECTED BY TERESA.C.FOLEY ST.AUGUSTINE OHAPELA CEMETERY.
BOSTON, MA LESLIE LARSON PHOTO 3|12|87 GJOY ST. BOSTON JACK BARRY GRAVESTONE- TONY NO: ST.AUGUSTINE CHAPE 4CEMETERY BOSTON,MA LESUE LARSON PHOTO 3/6|87 6504 ST. BOSTON CHAPEL INTERIOR-CHANCEC FROM BALLONY-TO SE NO:lO ST.AUGUTTINE CIMARECTCEMIETO BOSTON, MA LESLIE LAISON PHOTO 3/6/87 GJOY ST, BOsTON CHADELINTERIOR- NAVE TOWARD NAKTHEX-TO NY NOs 11 XOUR CHARIFTPRAY FOR BEFOSLOF THE SOUL GF WILLJAM WALSH. DTED JULY 9? 1883- 4CED312 HAPOSI REV.EMEL IANOE GRImCH WHO DIED HEY OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR THEREPOSE OF THE SOUL OF REV JOHN B.F.BOLAND A OLERGYMAN OF ST.FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH. CHARLESTOWN BORN SEP [18.1843- DIED NOV 30.1882 ACED 39 YRSR MIS: 12 DYSA R.7. OE VOUR CHNTCEY THE REPOSE OF TH REV.ANCELO\.CON NHO WAS BOBN IN DA DEPARTEDTHIS LI AUGUSTIO. A.D HEOFFICIATED NS ARCHDIOCESEPOR AND WAS CONNE OF THE CHARI INSTITUTIO MEEK AND UNA HE WENT AF 7.
AUGUTTINE CHAMEECEMETERY BOSTON, MA LESLIE LARSON PHOTO 3/6/87 6J04 ST. BOYTON CHAPELINTERIOR - TRANSEDT FLOOR-MIEMORIALTABLETSSE NO: 12 Here lie the mortal remains of FRANCIS ANTONY MATIGNON D. D. and for 26 years Pastor of the Charch of the Holy Cross in this town: Ob. Sept. 19."'1818. Et. 6.5. Biinved or Gee wud mew uhose in benidtetion Ecel'us C 13. V: 1 The law of truth vas in his outh and mniquity was not found in his lips:He walhed with nie in peaoe andequity and turned many auayfrom tniquity for the lipsef the Priest shall 1cop knovlrdre; and they shall seek thelaw at his mouth because heisthe angelof the Lerd of hosts. Melachi. C. 2.V. 6.7, Far foom the Sepulchreof his fathers ropose the esher of thie pod mid great Doctor Matignin: be hix grove it not io dimong slvangers, for il kas aud wilt often be watered the lesrs of an affectionate Fiock. md 1...
memary i Cherised by tha balue learwing, honour gouius, or toce derotion. The Bishop ar d conoregation in tearshave erected 11.is manmmenstof theirvencration an/1 oratitude. ST.AUGUSTIVE CHAPELI CEMETERT BÖSTON, MA LESLIE LARGON PHOTO 3|12/87 6J04 ST. BOsTON CHAPEL INTERIOR -CHANCEL- MATIGHON MEMOIIAL TABLE NO: 13 TO SOUT ST. AUGUSTINE CHAPELICEMETERT BOSTON, MA LESLIE LAKSON PHOTO 3|6/87 Gjoy st. BOSTON CHAPEL INTERIOR - SE SACRISTY- FIREPLACE-TONU NO: 14 ST. AUGUSTINE CHAPELA CEMETERY BOSTON, MA LESLIE LANGON PHOTO 316/87 GTOY ST. BOsTOX CHAPELINTERIOR - CHOIR LOFT -TOWYETT NO: 15 P685548 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State Michael Joseph Connolly, Secretary 150 Massachusetts Historical Commission Valerie A. Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer July 31, 1987 Ms.
Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service P.O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed you will find the nomination form for the following property: oston, St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery. Dorchester Street, between West 6th & Tudor Streets It has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Comments received to date are attached to the nomination form.
Sincerely, Betey Fredheg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission BF/1s Enclosure AUG 6 1987 6 1987 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 #0093545936 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State Michael Joseph Connolly, Secretary Massachusetts Historical Commission alerie A. Talmag xecutive Directo State Historic Preservation Officer Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service P.O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Attention: Betg Savage Caro Dear M8. Shull: September 22, 1987 Enclosed please find a continuation sheet with the corrections you requested to be inade to the National Register nomination for St. Augustine's Church, Boston (South Boston). Sincerely, Valeni Valerie A.
Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer Massachusetts Historical Commission Thank for expeditims; this romiriatin V. BF/1s Enclosure 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 Beth hoL retum Dugut chuch par ne Caul
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