The Working Boys Home is a historic orphanage building at 333 Nahanton Street in
Newton, Massachusetts
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately west of downtown Boston. Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages, without a city center. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the population of Ne ...
.
The four story
Romanesque brick building was designed by church architects constructed William H. and John A. McGinty, and built in 1896. The building follows a rough H pattern, with a seven-story tower at the right front. The building's walls are red brick, with granite trim elements. The roof is slate, with copper flashing and two coppered cupolas. The building cost $300,000 to build, a large sum for the time, and very nearly bankrupted the organization, which provided housing for homeless boys in exchange for a share of their wages. The facility was managed by the
Xaverian Brothers
The Xaverian Brothers or Congregation of St. Francis Xavier are a Roman Catholic religious institute founded by Theodore James Ryken in Bruges, Belgium, in 1839 and named after Saint Francis Xavier. The institute is dedicated to education.
Hist ...
until the 1970s.
The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1986.
The property is now the campus of the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center.
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton, Massachusetts
References
External links
Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center website
National Register of Historic Places in Newton, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures completed in 1896
Buildings and structures in Newton, Massachusetts
Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Jewish Community Centers in the United States
Jews and Judaism in Massachusetts
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