1918Childe Hassam visited Cape Ann and focused on Gloucester’s Unitarian Universalist Church on Middle Street as a symbol of patriotism.Arts and Culture, Government and Public Service, Military, Art

Universalist Church, n.d. Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives, Photo 12104

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Painted during World War I, the Middle Street Church paintings are philosophically comparable to Hassam’s famous New York City flag paintings. Hassam and other artists around the turn of the twentieth century cemented Cape Ann’s reputation as a significant place for aesthetic inquiry.

Hassam, Childe, complied by Nathaniel Pousette-D’Art, Childe Hassam (Frederick A. Stokes Co., NY, 1922), (Introduction by Ernest Haskell).

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1918
Howard B. Foster, the camera historian of Lanesville, died of Spanish influenza.
1918
Gloucester resident Lucy MacDonald traveled to Paris, France to work at the American Field Service headquarters during WWI.
1918
The first woman to work as a pharmacist in Massachusetts was Nellie Bass of Gloucester.
1918
Art collector and philanthropist, Isabella Stewart Gardner rented Dabsville member Caroline Sinkler's home on Eastern Point for the summer of 1918.

1918Childe Hassam visited Cape Ann and focused on Gloucester’s Unitarian Universalist Church on Middle Street as a symbol of patriotism.Arts and Culture, Government and Public Service, Military, Art

Other Events

Howard B. Foster, the camera historian of Lanesville, died of Spanish influenza.

Gloucester resident Lucy MacDonald traveled to Paris, France to work at the American Field Service headquarters during WWI.

The first woman to work as a pharmacist in Massachusetts was Nellie Bass of Gloucester.

Art collector and philanthropist, Isabella Stewart Gardner rented Dabsville member Caroline Sinkler's home on Eastern Point for the summer of 1918.