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Congregation Agudath Shalom, also known as the Walnut Street Synagogue or the Walnut Street Shul, is an historic Jewish synagogue at 145 Walnut... Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The congregation was founded in 1887. The present building was erected in 1909, one year after the great fire that destroyed a third of the buildings in the city. The architect was Harry Dustin Joll. The congregation's previous building was destroyed in the great fire. It is the oldest surviving synagogue in Chelsea, a city that was one-third Jewish at the time the synagogue was built. The synagogue possesses a "remarkable" series of wall and ceiling frescoes painted by Jewish immigrant artists. The "magnificent" cared Torah Ark was created by a noted Boston-area cabinetmaker who specialized in synagogue furniture, San Katz, in the 1920s. The synagogue was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
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The C. Henry Kimball House is an historic house at 295 Washington Avenue in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1888 by C. Henry Kimball... and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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Hamilton MacFadden was a film actor and film director.

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a... member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and Keith Jarrett, he has been described as one of the major jazz piano voices to emerge in the post-John Coltrane era. His career has been driven by his will to operate as a free agent and compulsively explore different avenues of music making. This hunger has positioned him as an important catalyst in the world of serious, mainstream acoustic jazz, and he is one of the most influential and widely studied figures in the last 40 years. Corea continued to pursue other collaborations and to explore various musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He is also known for promoting and fundraising for a number of social issues, such as eradicating social illiteracy, and is a Scientologist. Armando Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He is of Sicilian and Spanish descent.
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