{"id":1881,"date":"2018-01-26T20:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/?page_id=1881"},"modified":"2023-09-18T19:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:39:32","slug":"roslindale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roslindale\/","title":{"rendered":"Roslindale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1522083830577{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 10px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Corner of Belgrade Avenue and Aldrich Street in Roslindale, 1899. Courtesy of Roslindale Historical Society.<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69d84f4c3ed09{font-size:36px;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl vc_custom_1516999431266 vcex_69d84f4c3ed09\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Roslindale<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1660700388634{padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]A residential and commercial community known today for the many ethnicities of its shop owners, Roslindale is part of the shifting landscape of neighborhoods and immigration in southwest Boston that was once a section of colonial Roxbury. Following independence, elite Yankee Protestant entrepreneur families such as the Welds and Atwoods found Roslindale\u2019s rolling hills, forests, and the Stony Brook waterway and valley an ideal location. They established expansive estates, complete with orchards, pasture for sheep (whose wool supplied Lawrence mills), and farmlands that provided agricultural goods to communities along the new Boston and Providence Railroad line.<\/p>\n<p>The first 19<sup>th<\/sup> century immigration to the area provided the cheap labor for these holdings. Born in Ireland in the late 18<sup>th<\/sup> and early 19<sup>th<\/sup> centuries, Irish women and men fleeing the potato famine came to Roslindale as field and stable hands, blacksmiths, domestics, and other skilled and unskilled workers. Testimony to their presence are Irish surnames&#8211;such as O\u2019Brian and Cahill&#8211;on the headstones of the small Tollgate Cemetery near Forest Hills, established in the 1860s to meet the needs of these immigrant Catholics. The numbers of Irish immigrants grew in the 1870s as a consequence of renewed depression and of political persecution of Irish nationalists.\u00a0 For many, Roslindale offered opportunities: S. W.C. Canniff, a stonecutter who came from of County Cork, Ireland in the 1880s, used granite from nearby Quincy to start what is today W.C. Canniff\u2019s &amp; Sons Monuments. More generally, the Irish found work in a variety of trades, and they stayed in the area. Numbering over 2300 towards the end of the century, they were the largest foreign-born group in Roslindale.<\/p>\n<p>At the center of their community was the new Sacred Heart Church, established in 1893 by Father John Cummins\u2014for whom Cummins Highway was named\u2014a popular figure who spoke alongside William Lloyd Garrison in support of Irish Home Rule and helped put Roslindale on the map of Boston\u2019s Irish politics. As elsewhere, once an ethnic community prospers, more immigrants settle there. One hundred years later, Irish-born priest Father Gerry O\u2019Donnell would be giving mass and hearing confession in Gaelic at Sacred Heart for the newly arrived from the west of Ireland, where Irish is still widely spoken.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1891\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/WRox_Plate26_1896.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1891\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/WRox_Plate26_1896-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/WRox_Plate26_1896-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/WRox_Plate26_1896-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/WRox_Plate26_1896-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/WRox_Plate26_1896.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Map from 1896 showing streets named after German and Austrian composers in the &#8220;German&#8221; section of Roslindale. Note also Germania Hall, labeled &#8220;German Verein&#8221; at the top right hand corner. From George W. Bromley, Atlas of the City of Boston, West Roxbury, Plate 26. Courtesy of the Norman P. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With Boston\u2019s annexation of Roslindale in 1873, the area developed as a \u201cgarden suburb,\u201d where residents could escape the city\u2019s crowded neighborhoods and industrial areas. Improved train transportation also made Roslindale more accessible. Sunday day trippers arrived to picnic on its bucolic slopes in the Arnold Arboretum, established in 1872. The <em>Boston Herald<\/em> advertised Roslindale as the \u201cchoice outlaying district.\u201d Doctors recommended it to TB patients for what was known as the \u201cclimate cure. \u201c By 1890 the Yankee estate owners had gone into real estate, clearing tracts of land that were then sold in parcels for building well-to-do residences as well as more modest homes.<\/p>\n<p>Soon many first and second-generation immigrants settled on the neighborhood\u2019s tree-lined streets, put in gardens, and often raised small farm animals in their yards. Although British Canadians, Germans, and Italians were all part of this movement, the latter two made deep inroads. Of the roughly one thousand Germans who lived in Roslindale by the 1870s, most were Protestants who came with business experience, formal education, and professional skills. Their financial resources allowed them to establish Germania Hall (a German cultural and community center), open the German Lutheran Church on Kitteridge Street in 1887, and promote classical music and German language. Smaller numbers of Italians arrived toward the end of the century, and they too brought skills and culture&#8211;especially opera. But fleeing abject poverty, they brought fewer financial resources. They often found work in construction or clearing land, while others used their wits and artistic talents to earn a living.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1897\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1897\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HurdyGurdy-crop-1024x953.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HurdyGurdy-crop-1024x953.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HurdyGurdy-crop-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HurdyGurdy-crop-768x715.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HurdyGurdy-crop.jpg 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Born in 1880 on a ship traveling from Italy to New York, Marino Persechini settled in Roslindale in 1900 where he became a legendary hurdy-gurdy performer. To support his growing family, he hauled the heavy organ to downtown Boston where he played for small change. He performed until age 94.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Throughout the twentieth century Roslindale was a middle and working-class neighborhood. The German immigrant presence faded, while that of Italians and Irish remained steady without significant increase. Although the percentage of foreign born was less than in other areas of Boston in the 1900s, Greeks and Arabic speaking Syrian-Lebanese settled there, especially in the wake of World Wars I and II and military coups in the 1960s and 1970s. Primarily Catholic, they enriched the area with the churches and festivals of Eastern Orthodoxy, along with their bakeries, repairs shops, and small groceries.<\/p>\n<p>When Roslindale businesses and property values took a dive in the 1970s, largely due to the spread of shopping centers and the racialized fears of busing that led to \u201cwhite flight,\u201d it was immigrants who revived Roslindale. In addition to Greeks and Syrian-Lebanese, Haitian and Dominican professionals and workers began to arrive in the 1980s, settling along Washington Street and adjoining blocks south of Forest Hills. Often well educated, Haitians brought their island culture and the buoyancy of a tight-knit community evident in worship centers such as Eglise Baptiste du Tabernacle, multiple Kreyol language professional services, and the vigor with which they have organized relief for recurring crises back home.<\/p>\n<p>Dominicans, along with smaller groups of Colombians and Central Americans, have broadened use of the Spanish language in the neighborhood and introduced Latino music to its streets. Opening bodegas, barbershops, and other small businesses, Dominicans have been part of the rejuvenation of Washington Street, one replete with a mural of David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, and Pedro Martinez, Red Sox stars from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1892\" style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1892\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ortiz-mural.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ortiz-mural.jpg 645w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ortiz-mural-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Washington Street mural of David Ortiz and other Boston baseball stars<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By 2000 Roslindale was becoming, once again, renewed as an immigrant place. The remarkable shift in the percentage of Hispanic and non-white population, from 23 percent in 1990 to 53 percent in 2010, is largely the result of immigration. As of 2016, the foreign born made 29 percent of Roslindale\u2019s population, a higher percentage than the city overall. The neighborhood\u2019s diversity is especially evident in the vicinity of Roslindale Village&#8211;or the Square as many residents call it&#8211;where merchants hail from Albania, Algeria, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, England, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Jamaica, Japan, Haiti, Hungary, Italy, India, Lebanon, Senegal, Syria, Venezuela, and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211;Deborah Levenson<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69d84f4c3fa17 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1695065929140 vcex_69d84f4c3fa17\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roslindale\/joe-portaleki-pdf\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"1014\" height=\"1083\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop.jpeg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"An older man wearing glasses, a plaid button-down and an Ace hardware vest looks into the camera. He stands in front of a hardware store with the window displays in the background.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop.jpeg 1014w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop-281x300.jpeg 281w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop-768x820.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop-959x1024.jpeg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roslindale\/joe-portaleki-pdf\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee Odyssey: Josef Porteleki<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>The owner of Ace Hardware in Roslindale, Josef (Joe) Porteleki was born in Austria in 1947. He and his family were war refugees who lived for years in a Displaced Persons (DP) camp in Austria before being resettled in the US. In this interview, Joe talks about growing up in the camp, coming to the US, and living in Jamaica Plain and Roslindale.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69d84f4c403e4 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1695065946007 vcex_69d84f4c403e4\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roslindale\/tasula-macrides\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\"><img width=\"647\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tasula-pic-crop.jpeg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"A portrait of a young woman looking at the camera. She wears a collared shirt and a blazer on top.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tasula-pic-crop.jpeg 647w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tasula-pic-crop-290x300.jpeg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roslindale\/tasula-macrides\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\">Tasula Macrides: A Pontic Greek in Roslindale<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Born in Anatolia in 1919, Tasula Macrides was part of the diaspora of Pontic Greeks, an ethnic group that traditionally lived in that area.\u00a0 Surviving ethnic cleansing, population exchange, and Nazi occupation, Macrides found her way to Roslindale in the years after World War II.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69d84f4c40c88 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1695065966744 vcex_69d84f4c40c88\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_Pz6I59Smks\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"378\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tony_DeBenedictis.png\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tony_DeBenedictis.png 378w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tony_DeBenedictis-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_Pz6I59Smks\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Maestro of Roslindale: Tony DeBenedictis<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Born in 1939 into a farming family in Avellino, Italy, Antonio &#8220;Tony&#8221; DeBenedictis arrived in Boston when he was 19. After doing piece work sewing clothes, Tony opened his own butchery and imported goods grocery. In the 50-plus years he has been in business, Tony has brought his love of Italian opera to Roslindale residents who frequently hear it when they come to shop.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1522083830577{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 10px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;] Corner of Belgrade Avenue and Aldrich Street in Roslindale, 1899. Courtesy of Roslindale Historical Society. 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