A landmark easily seen from throughout East Boston, the Madonna Queen Shrine crowns the top of Orient Heights. The Don Orione Fathers, a Roman Catholic Order, came to Boston in 1949 to establish a home for aged Italians. They first purchased the Italianate house at 150 Orient Avenue, but applications came in so quickly that in 1952 the order
Keith N. Morgan, "Madonna Queen Shrine", [Boston, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-EB10.
Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, Keith N. Morgan, with Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, 218-219.
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