Sacred Heart Church, Rectory, School and Convent (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

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Location47 6th St.,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′14.5″N71°5′7.5″W / 42.370694°N 71.085417°W / 42.370694; -71.085417
Built1874 - 1883
Architect Patrick W. Ford
Peter Paul Pugin
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No. 82001974 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1982

The Sacred Heart Church, Rectory, School and Convent make up a historic Roman Catholic church complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The church was built in the 1870s and 1880s to serve the parish first organized as the St. John the Evangelist Parish in 1842. The cornerstone of the church was laid on 4 October 1874. It was dedicated in 1883, and opened for Divine Service on 12 November 1876. The rectory was added in 1885, and the convent and school followed in 1902. The church is a Medieval Gothic structure designed by P. W. Ford. The complex occupies an entire city block, [2] and has been partly taken over for Cambridge city school administration.

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The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 13 April 1982; #387395. [1]

Brief History

Under the pastorate of Msgr. John O'Brien the cornerstone of Sacred Heart Church was laid on October 4, 1874 by Archbishop John Joseph Williams. Later Bishop of Portland, Maine, James Augustine Healy, then pastor of St. James in Boston delivered the sermon. The basement of the church opened for services on November 12, 1876.

Sacred Heart Church was dedicated on January 28, 1883 with Archbishop Williams presiding, assisted by Bishops Healy of Portland, McMahon of Hartford, and O'Reilly of Springfield.

A "Desctiption of the Altar by the Architect" states in part, "The altar of the Sacred Heart Church, for beauty of design and grandeur of effect, has few, if any rivals in the United States." [3]

The Sacred Heart Rectory was built in 1895 under Msgr. O'Brien.

The Parish School opened in 1902 and was staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The High School would close in June 1964 and the elementary school would close in June 1966.

The Parish Baptistry, between the rectory and church building, closing off the courtyard, was built in 1906.

The Church steeple was razed in June 1962 due to poor structural condition.

On June 29, 1963 the church structure suffered a fire. [4] During the fire the roof and most of the original windows were destroyed. [5]

Saint John's Literary Institute

Within the parish bounds and started under Fr. Carroll, the St. John's Literary Institute was founded in 1852 to provide fellowship, entertainment, and education for East Cambridge's Catholic Community. On January 13, 1942 the building that had been the institute hall and become the Parish Center burned down. A Cambridge Historical Commission marker was placed on a building now occupying the plot where the institute hall once stood. [6]

Sacred Heart Review

Under the direction of Rev. John O'Brien a parish periodical is assembled, the first issue being published on December 1, 1888. This small periodical would ultimately grow to received national subscribership and maintain a printing office in the parish neighborhood. The Sacred Heart Review ceased publication in 1918 after 1,547 issues, now catalogued by the Boston College Libraries. [7]

List of Pastors

(Old) St. John's (1842-1876)

Sacred Heart and Old St. John's Parish (1876-1934)

Sacred Heart Parish (1934–2022)

East Cambridge Catholic Collaborative (since 2022)

See also

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Sacred Heart Church, Rectory, School and Convent". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
  3. ↑ "Sacred Heart altar". www.digitalcommonwealth.org. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  4. ↑ "Only a shell". www.digitalcommonwealth.org. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  5. ↑ "Firemen clean up Sacred Heart Church E. Camb". www.digitalcommonwealth.org. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  6. ↑ "St. John's Literary Institute - Cambridge Office for Tourism". www.cambridgeusa.org. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  7. ↑ "The Sacred Heart Review — Browse by title — Boston College Newspapers". newspapers.bc.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  8. ↑ "The conversion of Father George Haskins". www.thebostonpilot.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  9. ↑ "The conversion of Father George Haskins -- Part II". www.thebostonpilot.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  10. ↑ "Obituary: Father Francis C. O'Hare, former seminary faculty and retired pastor". www.thebostonpilot.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  11. ↑ "Obituary: Father George Vartzelis, pastor in Cambridge, Roslindale, Nahant, and Wellesley". www.thebostonpilot.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  12. ↑ "Obituary: Father John F. O'Donnell, former Pastoral Planning Director and Cambridge pastor". www.thebostonpilot.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  13. ↑ "Rev. Walter Carreiro". Saint John's Seminary. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  14. ↑ "Father Joseph L. Curran retires from Sacred Heart, Cambridge". www.thebostonpilot.com. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  15. ↑ https://stmarycambridge.org/people/father-michael-harrington
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