Our Lady of the Rosary

Our Lady of the Rosary, 7 State Street (1937).  Built in 1793, it served as the location of the newly established Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the Protection of Irish Immigrant Girls (1884), a name that was shortened when it became a full-fledged parish (1887).  The church next door (built in 1965) sits on the footprint of what was 8 State Street, where Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born to be canonized as saint, lived from 1801 to 1803.  This is her shrine, with the building shown on Abbott’s photograph serving as the parish rectory.