Wednesday Walk a few of the historic buildings in Downtown New Bedford MA

Starting with the Seamen's Bethel and Mariners home which was built in 1832 at 15 Johnny Cake Hill.

It is a historic non-denominational chapel managed by the New Bedford Port Society. It serves as a spiritual haven and memorial for whalers and fishermen.

I read Moby Dick as a teenager, where the bethel and was famously immortalized as the "Whaleman's Chapel" in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, at the timeI never would have imagines one day I would see it