Lee Costa

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Peddocks Island Chapel

Peddocks Island Chapel seen from Pemberton Point in Hull, MA, with a wooden pier in the foreground and late afternoon light.

I made the trip to Pemberton Point with one thing in mind — Peddocks Island Chapel. The light was perfect.

Built in 1941 as a non-denominational military chapel, it served Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish services for soldiers and their families at Fort Andrews — and later as a place of worship for Italian prisoners of war held on the island during World War II. It’s one of those places that looks simple from across the water but carries a lot of history.

And with the camera already out, a few other things along the way were hard to ignore — a killdeer working the rocks, the MBTA Glory blasting past, the old lanterns sitting outside the Hull Lifesaving Museum Boathouse, and the pilings at the harbor’s edge with that great little directional sign pointing toward Hingham, Lisbon, Nahant, and Boston.

Killdeer standing on a rocky shoreline in Hull, MA.
MBTA ferry Glory underway on Boston Harbor with a wake trailing behind.
Collection of vintage red and blue lanterns outside the Hull Lifesaving Museum Boathouse.
Weathered harbor pilings with a directional sign pointing toward Hingham, Nahant, Lisbon and Boston, with a fishing boat in the distance.
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