North End Italian Heritage

North Square features a central patch of cobblestones surrounded by buildings that date back to the late eighteenth century. It served as the center of colonial Boston, acting as a marketplace and the site of the town's first public…

Modern Pastry Shop features a storefront window filled with rows of cannoli shells waiting to be hand-filled to order. Antonio Picariello opened this bakery in nineteen thirty, bringing recipes from his home in Naples to the North End. He…

St. Leonard of Port Maurice Church features a tall, slender brick bell tower topped with a bright, onion-shaped copper dome that glints above the North End skyline. It opened in eighteen seventy-three as the first Italian parish in all of…

The Paul Revere Mall features a long, brick-paved walkway framed by rows of trees and bronze statues, leading directly toward the Old North Church. It sits on the site of a former cattle path and later a crowded residential alleyway that…

The brick facade of Saint Stephen's features a steeple topped by a clock with a wooden hand, which once signaled to sailors in Boston Harbor. Designed by Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House, it served as the…

All Saints Way features a collection of hundreds of framed saint portraits mounted directly onto the brick exterior of a private alleyway. Robert Markey began the display in the nineteen nineties as a way to house religious images rescued…

A weathered brick facade stands on Endicott Street, distinguished by a fading gold sign that reads Saint Anthony of Padua Society. This building houses a mutual aid organization founded in nineteen oh two by immigrants from Montefalcione,…