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All Saints' Church, Ashmont

Architect
Ralph Adams Cram
Year
1894
Style
Gothic Revival
City
Boston, MA
All Saints' Church, Ashmont
Photo: Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0
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All Saints' Church was built between 1892 and 1929 in Dorchester for an Episcopal congregation founded in 1867, and it was the first major commission of architect Ralph Adams Cram, who went on to become one of the most influential figures in early 20th-century Gothic architecture. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and is protected today by a preservation easement held by Historic New England.

the building

A long rectangular plan. The church's main body forms a long rectangle with small projections along its sides and a larger eastern projection at the southern end, which joins it to the parish house.

Steps from the Red Line. The church sits in southern Dorchester on a parcel bounded by Ashmont, Bushnell, and Lombard Streets, a short walk from the MBTA Red Line's Ashmont station.

the style

All Saints is a Gothic Revival work widely regarded as one of Cram's finest, built at the outset of a career that would go on to shape American Gothic church architecture for decades.

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the architect

Ralph Adams Cram, one of America's most important Gothic Revival architects, designed All Saints as his first major commission, launching a career centered on ecclesiastical Gothic design.

significance

All Saints' Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and is protected by a preservation easement held by Historic New England.

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