Saint Aidan's Church and Rectory
- Architect
- Maginnis & Walsh
- Year
- 1850
- Style
- Tudor Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
Saint Aidan's Church and Rectory in Brookline pairs a stuccoed Tudor Revival church at 224-210 Freeman Street, designed by the ecclesiastical firm Maginnis & Walsh and built in 1911, with an earlier rectory at 158 Pleasant Street built around 1850-55 by Boston lawyer Edward G. Parker. The parish, Brookline's third Catholic parish, is notable as the church attended by Joseph P. Kennedy's family from nearby Beals Street — both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy were baptized here.
the building
Rectory predates the church. The rectory at 158 Pleasant Street was built decades before the church, around 1850-55, by Boston lawyer Edward G. Parker. The parish acquired it in 1911 and restyled it in 1920 to match Maginnis & Walsh's new Tudor Revival church.
Kennedy baptisms. Living nearby on Beals Street, the Kennedy family worshipped here, and both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy were baptized in the church.
the style
Maginnis & Walsh, a firm noted for ecclesiastical design, gave the stuccoed church its Medieval, or Tudor, Revival styling when it was built in 1911.
More on Tudor Revivalthe architect
Maginnis & Walsh were a Boston firm noted for their ecclesiastical design work, of which Saint Aidan's Tudor Revival church is an example.
significance
The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The church closed in 1999 and was converted into housing.
nearby
- Saint Paul's Rectory
- Temple Ohabei Shalom
- Peter Fuller Building
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church
- Boston University Marsh Chapel
- Second Church in Boston