St. Joseph Catholic Church (Boston, Massachusetts)

Designed by Alexander Parris and built in 1834 for the Twelfth Congregational Society, it was purchased by the Boston Roman Catholic Diocese in 1862.

The first recorded Mass in the neighborhood was on March 17, 1732, in a private home near the current site of this church.

Designed by Alexander Parris (architect of Quincy Market), and constructed in 1834, the building was consecrated as St. Joseph's in 1862.

At the time, the West End community was diverse, consisting of working-class families of predominantly European descent.

It is an enlarged replica painted by Lawrence Sargent (1803) of the original by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758), housed at the Louvre in Paris.