Irish Immigration and Urban Transformation in a Boston City Neighborhood

Summary

When working class European immigrants first arrived on American shores, they had a profound effect on American cities. Throughout the nineteenth century, the processes of industrialization coupled with Boston’s position as a shipping hub created an influx of low-income laborers in need of housing. The Clough House, a colonial home built around 1715, functioned as a single-family residence for a century before being converted into a tenement for the working class. This poster explores the impact Irish, Irish-American, and other groups had on the development of Boston’s North End neighborhood. It combines historical, archival, and archaeological approaches to analyze the changes that took place on both a household and community level, focusing on: 1) demographic changes, 2) architectural changes, and 3) changes in ceramic consumption.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Materiality, Experience, and "Irishness": The Irish and Irish-American Experience through Time

Keywords

Spatial Coverage