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N4:
Mariners House
11 North Square
 Sarah
Josepha Hale (1788-1879), editor of Boston's Ladies' Magazine, established the
Seaman's Aid Society in 1833 to provide employment for the wives of sailors
as seamstresses and a place to sell their work. The Society also opened a Mariners
House in the North End as a sailors' boarding house and developed an industrial
school for seamen's daughters and a day nursery. Hale later became the editor
of Godey's Lady's Book. In September of 1840, Hale organized the great
women's fair which raised enough money to complete the Bunker Hill monument.
It had stood unfinished for more than a decade (see D15). |
N5: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Birthplace
4 Garden Court
 The
birthplace of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995), daughter of John F. Fitzgerald,
who became the first Boston-born Irish-American mayor in 1905, and mother of
President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, probably was
a bow fronted building like the one at No. 6 Garden Court. Rose Kennedy devoted
her life to raising her nine children and was active in special education as
well as in her sons' political campaigns. |
N6: Old St. Stephen's Church
401 Hanover Street |
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The only remaining church in Boston
designed by architect Charles Bulfinch was completed in 1804. Its history reflects
the neighborhood. In 1862, it became a Roman Catholic Church and Rose Fitzgerald
Kennedy and her father were christened here. On the pews are the names of the
North End women and men who helped raise the funds for the church's restoration
in 1965. A marker in memory of Rose Kennedy commemorates her baptism (see N5).
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