West End Museum Walking Tours Mark Global Jane’s Walk Weekend, Involve New York Streets Exhibit: Highlight Urban Renewal in Boston’s West End and South End Boston, MA—The West End Museum will host two walking tours in May. The first will focus on what happened to the West End under urban renewal and coincides with the…
West End’s “Last Resident“ is Irish Heritage Month Honoree: Museum Shares Legend of Elizabeth Kearney Blood, Urban Renewal Heroine Boston, MA—In the spring of 1960, after thousands of residents had been forced out of Boston’s West End, one woman remained in her apartment, surrounded by her two daughters and seven grandchildren. Elizabeth Kearney Blood’s refusal…
Historical Neighborhood Photo: Boston Elevated RailwayNorth End Waterfront This week’s photo shows a 1920 Lechmere Branch car on the Boston Elevated Railway – a streetcar and rapid transit railroad constructed during a time of major growth in Boston. With more and more people coming to live in the city, the need for efficient public transportation options…
Heritage NightBeacon Hill Times The West End Museum held its First Annual Heritage Night on December 5 to recognize the more than 20 ethnic groups that lived in the old West End. Pictures is original West Ender, Joe McDonald, member of the West End Museum Board of Directors. …
The West End Museum Honors Theofan “Fan” Stylian Noli, Helen Osborne Storrow And Theodore Richard “Richie” NeddNorth End Waterfront On Tuesday, December 5th from 6:30pm – 8:00pm, The West End Museum will host it’s 1st Annual West End Heritage Night. This first event will honor Theofan “Fan” Stylian Noli, Helen Osborne Storrow and Theodore Richard “Richie” Nedd. Honoree presentations will…
Museum to Host 1st Annual West End Heritage Night Boston, MA—Boston’s old West End was home to residents from more than 20 different ethnic and racial backgrounds. While the The West End Museum has previously honored West Enders of Irish, Jewish and Italian descent, it is now establishing a new event to recognize individuals from…
A Changing Canal StreetBy Kathleen Bondi As the weather in Boston begins to cool, the sports scene heats up. There’s the onset of Soxtober playoffs plus more Patriots’ action and — in the West End — the Bruins home season opener and the Celtics last preseason home game at the TD Garden. If you haven’t…
Share Your Story Project Preserves West End MemoriesBy Matt Ellis It’s been more than half a century since the buildings and streets of the old West End disappeared under urban renewal. Many families forced to move from “the greatest neighborhood this side of heaven” have scattered further, to their retirement in a southern state or…
Joe Greenberg: A Museum Volunteer’s West End MemoriesBy Nicholas DeBlasio The atmosphere inside The West End Museum is always brightened by the arrival of volunteer and former West Ender, Joe Greenberg. Often, when joined by other old residents and volunteers, the mood becomes more like that of a neighborhood clubhouse than a museum. That communal,…
October 2017 Newsletter Dear Friend of The West End Museum, We hope your summer brought fun in the sun with family and friends and — for those of you in New England — that you’re looking forward to the changing leaves, crisp air and farm stands teeming with apples and pumpkins. As we settle into…