In 1873, with the Church of St. Thomas Aquinas built, Reverend Thomas Magennis, the pastor, turned his attention to the establishment of a grammar school for boys and girls in the parish.
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By Miss Ellen Morse (given before the Tuesday Club in 1921) - these reminiscences of our town of Jamaica Plain from the early 1840's over a period of 30 years.
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The history of the dwelling is what is popularly called, locally, the old Call mansion, situated at 14 Everett street. It is no longer extant.
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Strong evidence suggests that the first apartment house built in Jamaica Plain was 743 Centre Street, a three story panel brick building with limestone trim built by Frederick and Robert Seaver in 1875.
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The Jamaica Plain Friendly Society was a public charity incorporated in 1901 and had offices on the second floor of the Curtis Hall municipal building in Jamaica Plain. The Society provided relief to the poor by providing home work sewing garments.
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The Footlight Club was organized on January 4, 1877 and is America's oldest community theater group.
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The board of health has discovered a serious typhoid fever epidemic at Jamaica Plain (1899).
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