All Saints' Church, Ashmont

All Saints' Church, Ashmont

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caption =
location= 211 Ashmont St., Boston, Massachusetts
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 17
lat_seconds = 8.6
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 71
long_minutes = 3
long_seconds = 48.35
long_direction = W
locmapin = Massachusetts
area =
built =1892
architect= Ralph Adams Cram
architecture= Late Gothic Revival
added = June 16, 1980
governing_body = Private
refnum=80000678cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

All Saints' Church, Ashmont, began in 1867 as a mission of St. Mary's Church under the guidance of Miss Hannah Austin, later Sister Hannah, who in 1897 was in charge of the Church Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota.Fact|date=April 2007

It is located in the southern part of the Dorchester neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts and is a short walk from the Ashmont T station on the Red Line.

Douglass Shand Tucci said of the church: "Architect Ralph Adams Cram's first church, designed in partnership with Bertram Goodhue, was All Saints', Ashmont. A significant landmark in American architectural history, All Saints' is, of its type, Cram and Goodhue's masterpiece, and a model for American parish church architecture for the first half of the 20th century."Fact|date=April 2007

The Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

External links

* [http://www.allsaints.net/ All Saints Ashmont website]


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