Mariners House

Mariner's House
Mariner's House in 2017
Location11 North Square, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates42°21′50″N 71°3′13″W / 42.36389°N 71.05361°W / 42.36389; -71.05361
Built1847[2]
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.99001302 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 12, 1999

The Mariner's House is a historic hotel at 11 North Square in Boston, Massachusetts.

History

The building was constructed in 1847[2] by the Boston Port Society and operated as a boarding house for sailors by the Boston Seaman's Aid Society and the Port Society's chaplain, Father Edward Thompson Taylor.

The building was described in the 1850s:

This is a noble edifice of 4 stories, erected by the Boston Port Society, and leased to the Seamans' Aid Society : it contains 40 rooms over the basement story : the building is 40 feet square, with a wing extending 70 feet of three stories; in the basement is a storage room for seamens' luggage, kitchen; laundry and bathing room: in the wing, is a spacious dining hall for seating an hundred persons ': it has a chapel for morning and evening services arid where social, religious meetings are held every Wednesday evening under the care of Rev. E. T. Taylor : a reading and news room, with a good library to which accessions are daily making; and a store for the sale of sailors' clothing: the building and land cost about $38,000, and it has been furnished at a cost of about $21,000, by the generous contributions of the Unitarian Churches of Boston and vicinity; a good supply of water is on the estate, and two force pumps supply each of the stories with hot or cold water, as required.[3]

The hotel was built in the Greek Revival style and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. In that same year, the house was rededicated "to the service of seafarers" by the Boston Port and Seaman's Aid Society;[4] the two organizations merged in 1867.

Current use

Mariner's House now maintains the role of an inexpensive hotel for merchant mariners on active duty. It offers short-term accommodations (maximum stay 13 days), including breakfast, to guests who can prove that they are actively working in the merchant marine.[5]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b The AIA Guide to Boston lists the date at 1938, but the Mariner's House website lists 1847. Southworth, Susan & Southworth, Michael (2008). AIA Guide to Boston (3rd ed.). Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-7627-4337-7.; Boston Port & Seaman's Aid Society Mariner's House website
  3. ^ "Mariner's House, North Square." Dearborn's Reminiscences of Boston. Boston: N. Dearborn, 1851
  4. ^ Historical plaque on site
  5. ^ "Mariners House".

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