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(Irving H. Chase Family Memorial Collection (SCM). Right: Vision Appraisal database
Left: A postcard postdate 1908, the year the church was completed.
Saint Thomas More Church
Church: 59 Rockland Street; Former Rectory: 56 Rockland Street
St. Thomas More Church is a 11/2-story Shingle Style structure with a tall, square corner tower
containing an open belfry and pyramidal roof, and some Romanesque-derived detail, designed by
architects Murphy, Hindle and Wright. It was founded in 1884 as a mission chapel for St. Francis of
Assisi Church in Wakefield and dedicated to Saint Philomena. The mission chapel was enlarged in
the first decade of the new century to accommodate an increasing congregation, and in 1917
it became an independent parish. The church was rededicated to St. Thomas More in 1961.
Vision Appraisal database
Above: St. Thomas More Rectory, 56 Rockland St.