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Exhibits

Current Exhibit

On December 4, 1885, the Rev. John J. Riordan purchased Watson House, at 7 State Street in lower Manhattan, and formally established the Home of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the Protection of Irish Immigrant Girls. Through the pioneering efforts of emigration reformer Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Fr. Riordan and the priests that came after him, the Mission helped more than 100,000 women. This exhibit examines this the exhibit examines this extraordinary undertaking, an untold story of New York’s Irish Catholics. Featured are the original ledger books from the Mission, containing more than 60,000 names and genealogical information not found anywhere else. The exhibit also analyzes the connection of the Catholic Church to the Mission and highlights new research being done on the women who came through Watson House.

To visit the exhibit, contact the Archives at [email protected] or 914-476-6333.

To view the digital version of the exhibit, click here.


Digital Exhibits

The Archives is pleased to feature the following digital exhibits, which use items from the Archives’ collections to tell the story of Catholics in New York.

The Irish Mission at Watson House

The Great War and Catholic Memory

Images of Sanctity: Holy Cards of the Catholic Church, 1800 to the Present

Sacred Music in the Archdiocese of New York

Foundation Parishes of the Archdiocese of New York

The Evolution of an American Church: St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, 1809-2015

Cardinal Patrick Hayes and the Archdiocese of New York in the Bahamas


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