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WikiConference North America 2019

=Schedule=

Culture Crawl
Evening reception @ the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum (website): 2450 Beacon Street, Boston — time TBA, food & drinks served
 * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 465 Huntington Avenue — base of operations for the day
 * State Library of Massachusetts in the State House
 * Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt)

Ascension-Caproni Historic District: roughly bounded by Washington, Newcomb, Thorndike, & Reed Streets
 * 1892 yellow-brick Gothic Revival Church of the Ascension (now Grant A.M.E.): 1906 Washington Street
 * If possible, photograph the church with the brick buildings on either side from across the street in Ramsay Park to illustrate the H.D.

State Library of Massachusetts tour: 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 9
The Guild of All Souls Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung at the Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street: 11 a.m. Luncheon following.

Monday, November 11

 * 6 p.m. — Free Community Dinner: Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, 165 Park Drive, Boston

Tuesday, November 12

 * 1) Providence Station: 100 Gaspee Street
 * 2) Rhode Island State House: 41.82944°N, -71.41514°W


 * 1) Old State House: 150 Benefit Street
 * 2) Benefit Street Arsenal: 176 Benefit Street
 * 3) First Baptist Church in America: 75 North Main Street
 * 4) Woods–Gerry House: 62 Prospect Street
 * 5) Lovecraft's Last House: 65 Prospect Street
 * 6) First Church of Christ, Scientist: 71 Prospect Street 41.82917°N, -71.405°W

Brown University
 * 1) Joseph Haile House (Gardner House): 106 George Street
 * 1) Corliss–Brackett House: 45 Prospect Street
 * 2) Carrie Tower: Prospect and Waterman Streets
 * 3) John Hay Library: 20 Prospect Street — rare books and special collections
 * 4) Annmary Brown Memorial: 21 Brown Street
 * 5) John Carter Brown Library
 * 6) Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology: Manning Hall
 * 7) Van Wickle Gates
 * 8) University Hall: on Quiet Green
 * 9) Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World: Rhode Island Hall
 * 10) John Brown House Museum: 52 Power Street
 * 11) Thomas P. Ives House: 66 Power Street


 * Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church: 114 George Street (noonday prayer and Low Mass — noon)


 * 1) Governor Stephen Hopkins House: 15 Hopkins Street
 * 2) Providence Athenaeum: 251 Benefit Street
 * 3) Nightingale–Brown House: 357 Benefit Street
 * 4) Thomas F. Hoppin House: 383 Benefit Street


 * Haven Brothers Diner





Telescope Observing Night at Ladd Observatory: 7:30 — 9:30 p.m.

Guide to Lovecraftian Sites in Rhode Island: Providence
 * Follow the Lovecraft’s College Hill Walking Tour (map)
 * 1) Roger Williams National Memorial Park — Commemorating the site on which Roger Williams founded Providence in 1636
 * 2) Episcopal Cathedral of St. John: 271 North Main Street — Founded in 1720 as King’s Church, both Lovecraft and Poe haunted the graveyard of this church.
 * Historic Providence Well: 237 North Main Street
 * 1) Sarah Helen Whitman House: 88 Benefit Street — Home of the poet Poe courted.
 * 2) Sullivan Dorr House: 109 Benefit Street — Designed by John Holden Greene with paintings by Michele Felice Cornè, this house sits on land that was once owned by Roger Williams, and where he was originally buried in 1683.
 * 3) Seagrave Mansion: 119 Benefit Street — original home of Seagrave Memorial Observatory, now an apartment building.

Wednesday, November 13
Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Boston): 138 Tremont Street near Downtown Crossing, directly across from Boston Common and Park Street Station


 * 8:30 a.m. — Morning prayer: St. John's Chapel


 * 10 a.m. — Holy Eucharist


 * noon — Santa Misa en Español

King's Chapel: corner of Tremont and School Streets


 * 1 p.m. — Lectio Divina: 64 Beacon Street


 * Guided tour at 2 or 3 p.m.


 * Visit the adjacent King's Chapel Burying Ground


 * 5:30 p.m. — Contemplative Communion: 58 Tremont Street

Sites nearby:
 * Boston Common Tablet

Boston Central Library in Copley Square
 * 6 to 8 p.m. — Exhibition opening, catalog release, and book launch

Thursday, November 14

 * Fenway Studios: 30 Ipswich Street, Boston (photograph early morning from the parking structure to the north across I-90 to get the whole building)


 * St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine (next to Fenway Studios)


 * Massachusetts Historical Society: 1154 Boylston Street


 * Frederick Ayer Mansion: 395 Commonwealth Avenue, Back Bay neighborhood (only surviving residence created by American artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany) – photograph from south


 * Leif Erikson Statue: Commonwealth Avenue Mall just east of the Bowker Overpass (Charlesgate) 42.34903°N, -71.09139°W


 * Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Statue: west of Gloucester Street on Comm Ave Mall 42.35°N, -71.08514°W


 * Old South Church: 645 Boylston Street by Copley Square


 * Boston Public Library, McKim Building: Dartmouth Street at Copley Square


 * Trinity Church in the City of Boston: 206 Clarendon Street


 * David Sears House: 42–43 Beacon Street, Boston (photograph in afternoon)


 * Headquarters House (William Hickling Prescott House): historic house museum at 55 Beacon Street on Beacon Hill


 * Great Elm Monument: center of Boston Common


 * Paul Revere House: 19 North Square


 * Old North Church (Christ Church in the City of Boston): 193 Salem Street in the North End, Boston


 * Liberty Tree site: 2 Boylston Street


 * Boston Tea Party ships and museum: 306 Congress Street Bridge 42.35208°N, -71.05139°W

(The precise location of the Griffin's Wharf site of the Tea Party has been subject to prolonged uncertainty; a comprehensive study places it near the foot of Hutchinson Street (today's Pearl Street).

Freedom Trail
Generally from south-to-north:
 * 1) Boston Common
 * 2) Massachusetts State House
 * 3) Park Street Church
 * 4) Granary Burying Ground
 * 5) King's Chapel and Burying Ground
 * 6) Boston Latin School former site and Benjamin Franklin statue
 * 7) Old Corner Bookstore
 * 8) Old South Meeting House
 * 9) Old State House: intersection of Washington and State Streets
 * 10) Boston Massacre site
 * 11) Faneuil Hall
 * 12) Paul Revere House
 * 13) Old North Church
 * 14) Copp's Hill Burying Ground
 * 15) USS Constitution
 * 16) Bunker Hill Monument