Built in 1915 in the Mission Revival architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1990. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Our Lady of Good Voyage Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 136-144 Prospect Street and 2-4 Taylor Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The first church on the site was built in 1892 to serve a large Portuguese immigrant population that came to Gloucester to work in the fishery.”
Wikipedia article Our Lady of Good Voyage Church (Gloucester, Massachusetts), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 350 National Register listings in Essex County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1915, Mission Revival architecture, by Halfdan M. Hanson · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Essex County.
National Register reference number.90000706- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
25 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Our Lady of Good Voyage Church between
2015 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Recreation and ceremony
10
Arson/incendiarism
5
Smoking
4
Debris and open burning
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 5,072 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Our Lady of Good Voyage Church between 1817 and
1975: 2,099 Animalia, 1,353 Plantae, 1,025 Fungi, 326 Chromista, 158 Unrecorded, 91 Protozoa, 20 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A H HIGGINSON, A Perlmutter, A. A. Eaton and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Our Lady of Good Voyage Church: 8 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Gloucester, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
4,128 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: nationally statewide *locally D Applicable National Register Criteria XA Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) XA Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Architecture Ethnic Heritage / European Lxl C C F -G Period of Significance 1889-1939 Significant Dates 1914 Cultural Affiliation N/A Significant Person Architect/Builder N/A Hanson, Halfdan M, Sleeper, Henry Dana Taylor, John & Company State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above.
Our Lady of Good Voyage Church possesses integrity of design, materials, setting, workmanship, and association with the large Portuguese population who came to Gloucester for work in the city's active fishing industry. In addition, the building is significant as a prominent, architect-designed, Mission-style church. The building is of local significance and meets Criteria A and C for listing of the National Register of Historic Places. For three generations the Portuguese-American fleet out of Gloucester played an important role in the fishing industry of New England and the United States. By the early nineteenth century, fishing, shipbuilding, and trading sustained the population of Gloucester.
Between 1800 and 1830 rapid growth in the harbor village far exceeded that in the other villages of Gloucester. As early as 1829 Portuguese immigrants, most of whom came from the rugged Azores Islands, settled around Gloucester's Inner Harbor where they were employed in the fishing industry. By 1888 about 200 Portuguese families lived in Gloucester, making it the largest colony of Portuguese on the East Coast. With no church building of their own through most of the nineteenth century, the Portuguese worshiped at St. Ann's Church in central Gloucester, the oldest Periodically, services were held in Portuguese at Pew's Hall on Howe Street by Rev. Joseph I. deSerpa, pastor of St.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 90000706, 23 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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