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Helen Osborne Storrow

(1865 - 1944)
Philanthropist

Helen Storrow (1865-1944) funded the Saturday Evening Girls at North Bennet Street Industrial School, where young working-class Italian and Jewish immigrant girls were taught literacy skills, pottery, and other crafts in a culturally rich program.

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This evolved into the Paul Revere Pottery and Library Clubhouse. Some of the pottery is now displayed in the Boston Public Library and Museum of Fine Arts. Storrow also championed playgrounds, the Girl Scouts, and sailing on the Charles, now known as Community Boating.

Related Landmarks

Helen Storrow, Lina Hecht, Golde Bamber, Eva White, Ruth Roman West End House

West End
5 Blossom St., Boston, MA 02114
19th Century

Arts & Culture

Built in 1929 and funded by James Storrow’s family, the West End Boys Club housed libraries, club rooms, a gym, and basketball courts. Now it is offices for Mass General Hospital.
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Paul Revere Pottery and Library Clubhouse

North End
18 Hull St., Boston, MA 02113
20th Century

Arts & Culture

The first home of the Paul Revere Pottery, founded in 1908 by librarian Edith Guerrier (1870-1958) and artist Edith Brown (1880-1932), was in the basement of this building.
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