Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary - Way Station for Irish Immigrant Girls - 7 State Street NYC - Illustrations by Miss G.A. Davis - Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper - 8 Aug 1895

# 7 State Street - Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary - (image date, late nineteenth century)

Across the street from various ferry docks, "South Ferry" Manhattan, first stop in America passing first through Ellis Island, in view of New York Bay/Harbor, next to the Statue of Liberty Island, three charitable organizations, way stations to find work, safe clean housing, set up to cater to individual immigrant groups, newly arrived, and some alone, like Irish girls, making their way to America alone or hoping to join, connect to relatives already here in the promised land at the height of immigration to America at the end of the 19th century.

Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary at # 7 State Street (below), the middle building of the three structures on an irregular lot at the turn/bend of the street - two full facades but more like 1-1/2 houses in terms of space with irregular shaped rooms within. At one time these structures were right on the docks since pushed back by landfill.

Building on left (below), Number 8 State Street, site of at one time the home of Elizabeth Seton around 1800, born in Staten Island in 1774 in her family's summer home. That lot, Number 8 New York structure from when she was a married woman and mother and Episcopalian, before she was widowed and converted to Roman Catholicism and founded the Sisters of Charity religious organization.

# 8 State Street - Lutheran's Pilgrim House

# 7 State Street - Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary

# 6 Leo House - for German Catholic immigrants

King's Handbook of New York, 1893

A Party (of immigrant girls) for Father Callahan.

About the Artist - NY Daily Graphic - 25 Apr 1876.
Artist exhibited at the Women's Pavilion, Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1876.

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