Salem Maritime NHS InDepth: virtual tour

Virtual Tour: Salem Maritime NHS

Historical photograph of five men in suits sitting around a table. The two men on the outside of the group have ledgers in front of them, and the one in the center sits in a taller, decorated chair and holds a gavel in his hand.

St. Joseph Hall

Photograph of the officers of the St. Joseph Society, c. 1910

The St. Joseph Society was a benevolent organization founded in 1899 for the advancement of Salem's rapidly growing Polish immigrant population. The society built St. Joseph Hall in 1909 to provide a gathering place for its members. For more than seventy-five years it was the headquarters of Salem's chapter of the National Polish Roman Catholic Union.