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City PlanningHistoryPolitics & LawSocial & Religious InstitutionsWest BostonWomen lithograph showing the front of a four story brick building, lined with windows and topped with 11 chimneys. The building is surrounded by grass and a few trees.

The Leverett Street Almshouse

For almost twenty-five years, the Leverett Street Almshouse dominated Barton’s Point, a blunt strip of land jutting out from the West End into the Charles River. In this building, designed by Charles Bulfinch, Boston continued to carry out its tradition of housing and caring for its most needy residents.

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Art & LiteratureHistoryImmigrant NeighborhoodNeighborhood Life Boy with piano in 1924.

The Boston Music School Settlement

Settlement houses were a valuable resource for immigrant families, providing them educational and health services, and practical support in adapting to their new country. Some settlement houses offered specialized services, such as music school settlements, which gave children and adults an opportunity to escape the daily struggles of city life by engaging with the arts.

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AbolitionArt & LiteratureModernNeighborhood LifeWest BostonWomen Photograph of a four-story brick church topped by a cupola and weather vane. It is fronted by trees and cars can be seen in the foreground.

The Old West Church

The Old West Church, standing at 131 Cambridge St, is one of the few surviving buildings of the historic West End. Since its opening in 1806, the building has served as a church, a library, a shelter, and a church again. It continues to hold masses and contribute to the Boston community today.

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Immigrant NeighborhoodImmigrationNeighborhood LifeSchools & Education Photograph of a man posing, wearing glasses and an suit and tie.

Harry E. Burroughs and the Burroughs Newsboys

Hundreds of boys from the West End and other parts of Boston benefited from the financial, education, and moral support provided by the Burroughs Newsboys Foundation.

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Immigrant NeighborhoodImmigrationNeighborhood LifeSchools & EducationUrban Renewal Photograph of a man with white hair, beard and eyeglasses wearing a suit and tie and sitting in profile.

Edward Ginn and the Charlesbank Homes

Publishing magnate Edwin Ginn put his wealth and energies to use by establishing the World Peace Foundation and constructing housing for 500 residents at the Charlesbank Homes in the West End.

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AbolitionAfrican AmericansArt & LiteratureSocial & Religious InstitutionsWest BostonWomen Photo of book cover, "Narrative of Mrs. Prince".

Nancy Gardner Prince

Nancy Gardner Prince’s world travel and experiences were unique for a 19th century Black woman, yet she still suffered from many of the harsh trials facing her people.

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Art & LiteratureImmigrant NeighborhoodImmigrationMedicineModernWest BostonWomen Portrait of a middle-aged woman with curly locks and a wearing a lace head covering

The Legacy of Mary Ann Vincent

In the mid-19th century, Mary Ann Vincent, a popular English actress, arrived in the West End to expand her career. Her reputation for kindness and charity inspired those around her and blossomed into multiple institutions founded in her name, which to this day work to support women with access to advanced healthcare.

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African AmericansNeighborhood LifeSocial & Religious InstitutionsWest Boston Photograph of a five story brick building with a glass store front on the first floor. The building abuts a street.

The Christmas Elephant

On Christmas Eve 1896, the Society of the New Jerusalem church on Bowdoin St. in the West End held a Christmas festival for children, which featured an elephant bearing candy. Christmas festivals at West End churches, including the Twelfth Baptist Church on Phillips Street, were typical of the nineteenth century.

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