Saint Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church - Baltimore MD
Posted by: Don.Morfe
N 39° 16.992 W 076° 35.472
18S E 362762 N 4349411
Saint Stanislaus Kostka Church was built in 1889. It is a brick Romanesque Revival building. The church is a contributing building in the Fells Point Historic District-National Register of Historic Places.
Waymark Code: WM17DDN
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2023
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From the website below:
"St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church and Hall - Aliceanna at Ann Street-This 1889 Gothic style structure replaced an earlier church on the site and was built to serve the growing Polish community. Next door, Mother Seton Academy educates children in the original parochial school building. The Hall around the corner at 1727 Aliceanna Street served as the 1912 strike headquarters for longshoremen. During the strike, AFL president Samuel Gompers came to the hall and spoke in support of their demands for unionization. Longshoremen met here again in 1936 to support a wildcat seamen's strike. The many ethnic churches of Fells Point, like St. Stanislaus, provided the continuity of language, religion, and culture to newly arrived immigrants coping with the shock of forging new lives in a new land.
The church closed in 2000 and it is now occupied by Sanctuary Body Works."
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