Mariners House
- Architect
- Gridley James Fox Bryant
- Year
- 1847
- Style
- Greek Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
Built in 1847 by the Boston Port Society, the Mariner's House at 11 North Square operated as a boarding house for sailors, run by the Boston Seaman's Aid Society under the Port Society's chaplain, Father Edward Thompson Taylor. The four-story building and its land cost about $38,000, and it was furnished for roughly $21,000 through contributions from Boston's Unitarian churches. It was designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant in the Greek Revival style.
the building
A sailor's boarding house. The 40-foot-square building held 40 rooms above a basement with storage for seamen's luggage, a kitchen, laundry, and bathing room. A three-story, 70-foot wing contained a dining hall seating a hundred, a chapel for daily services and Wednesday meetings, a reading room with a growing library, and a store selling sailors' clothing.
the style
A Greek Revival institutional building, built plain and functional to serve its purpose as seamen's lodging rather than for architectural display.
More on Greek Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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