Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2096
Postcard. Caption on front: St. Marks Church and Rectory, Dorchester. Circa 1910.
The wooden St. Marks Catholic Church building lasted from about 1899 till 1914, when the parish commissioned Charles Brigham to design the red brick church in perpendicular gothic style that replaced it.
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