{"nrhp_refnum":"80000678","name":"All Saints' Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"211 Ashmont St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.28583762000005,"lon":-71.06292493899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An Episcopal parish church at 211 Ashmont Street in the Ashmont section of Dorchester, Boston, built in stages between 1892 and 1929 to designs by Cram & Goodhue. It is built of Quincy granite with Nova Scotia sandstone trim.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church was Ralph Adams Cram's first architectural commission and the earliest work of the Modern Gothic style. Its long construction reflects the evolution of Cram's style. Its interior, designed as a unified whole with notable sculpture and stained glass, is called a high point in American church design and a prototype for later church building.","narrative":"All Saints' Church is an Episcopal parish church in Boston's Ashmont neighborhood of Dorchester, near Peabody Square. Designed by Cram & Goodhue and built of rough-faced Quincy granite with Nova Scotia sandstone trim, it was completed in stages: the nave, chancel and cloister in 1893, the tower and porches in 1896, the parish house in 1906, and two side chapels in 1912 and 1929. It was Ralph Adams Cram's first architectural commission and is presented as the earliest work of the Modern Gothic style, which sought to continue English Perpendicular Gothic in a modern form. The plain exterior contrasts with a richly decorated interior, including a carved oak chancel screen, a stone reredos by Domingo Mora and John Evans, carvings by Johannes Kirchmayer, and windows by Charles Connick. The interior was designed by the same firm as the structure, an approach that became a model for later American church building. The parish began as a mill workers' mission in 1867.","period_of_significance":"1892-4, 1906, 1912, 1929","architect_builder":"Ralph Adams Cram","architectural_style":"Modern Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent, occupied, in religious use; the form says the building has not been altered since the last addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.58071-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/7969/63796997/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000678.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000678/67ed88c169-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000678/67ed88c169-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jim Roberts","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_All_Saints%27_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Roberts</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_All_Saints%27_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796997","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parish_of_All_Saints_Ashmont","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4729307"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/all-saints-church-80000678/"}