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St. Paul's Church, Harvard Square | |
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42°22′16″N71°06′56″W / 42.3712°N 71.1156°W | |
Location | 29 Mount Auburn St Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Country | United States |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Website | www |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Dedicated | October 13, 1924 (by Cardinal O'Connell) [1] |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Architect(s) | Edward T. P. Graham |
Specifications | |
Materials | Brick |
Administration | |
Archdiocese | Boston |
Parish | St. Paul |
Clergy | |
Pastor(s) | Rev. William T. Kelly, S.T.D. |
Chaplain(s) | Rev. George S. Salzmann, OSFS, Rev. Nathaniel A. Sanders, S.T.L. |
Deacon(s) | Deacon Tim O'Donnell |
Laity | |
Director of music | Brandon Straub |
Organist(s) | Nara Lee |
Organ scholar | Michael Thekaekara |
St. Paul Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church located at 29 Mount Auburn Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Archdiocese of Boston. As well as serving as the local parish church, it is the home of St. Paul's Choir School whose students serve as the choristers in the Choir of St. Paul's, and the Harvard Catholic Center serving the academic community of Harvard University.
The church was built from 1916 to 1924 and was designed by Edward T. P. Graham in the Italian Romanesque style. It is part of the Harvard Square Historic District.
The Church of St. Paul was one of many parishes in the area founded by Fr. Manasses Dougherty largely in response to the influx of Irish Catholics to the Boston area in the late 19th century. The original St. Paul Church building, a former meeting house of the Shepherd Congregational Society on the site of what is now Harvard University's Holyoke Center, was purchased by Fr. Dougherty in 1873. The cornerstone for the present church building, an Italian Romanesque monument located at Quincy Square (corner of Bow and Arrow Streets), was laid in November 1916 under the leadership of then-pastor Rev. John J. Ryan.
The architect was Edward T. P. Graham, a St. Paul parishioner, graduate of Harvard University, and winner of the first Traveling Fellowship to Rome and the École des Beaux-Arts. Graham used Verona's Basilica of San Zeno Maggiore and Torre del Commune as inspirations. The new church building, which was dedicated in October 1924, was at the same site as the St. Paul School, which had been built some years before. By the mid-1960s, enrollment had declined and the parish school was replaced by the Choir School. In 1991, under the direction of then-pastor Rev. John P. Boles (later Auxiliary Bishop of Boston), the original school building was torn down and replaced with a multi-purpose building attached to the church, which houses the rectory, parish offices, the Choir School and the Harvard Catholic Center. The present pastor of St. Paul's and Senior Catholic Chaplain to Harvard is the Reverend William T. Kelly, who has served as pastor since June 2016.
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