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One Devonshire Place is a modern skyscraper in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts directly across the street from One Boston Place. Built in 1983, it stands 396 feet (121 meters) tall, housing 42 floors. [1] [2] The tower is mixed-use, with 8 floors of offices and 35 of residential space (including a basement level).
Washington Street is a street originating in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, which extends southwestward to the Massachusetts–Rhode Island state line. The majority of its length outside of the city was built as the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike in the early 19th century.
Among the bureaus and programs of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health are the following: Bureau of Communicable Disease Control is concerned with areas including tuberculosis prevention and control, sexually transmitted disease prevention, epidemiology, immunization, influenza and West Nile virus monitoring and control, disease quarantine requirements, HIV/AIDS surveillance and ...
The building was designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1985. The oldest building in the district is the 1824 Lafayette Hotel, located next to the Liberty Tree Block on Washington Street. Its modest Federal-style facade is actually an early 20th-century alteration.
Washington Street station is a surface stop on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)'s Green Line B branch, located in Brighton, Boston. The station is located in the median of Commonwealth Avenue northeast of Washington Street. Washington Street station consists of two side platforms, which serve the B branch's two tracks.
The Modern Theatre [note 1] is located on Washington Street in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.It opened as a movie theater in 1914 in a former commercial building that had been repurposed by noted theater architect Clarence H. Blackall.
Paramount Theatre is a theatre in Boston on Washington Street, between Avery and West Streets. History The Paramount opened in 1932 as a 1,700-seat, single-screen ...
"In 1711, Oct. 2, a fire commenced in Williams' Court in an oakum pickers tenement, where the woman suffered the fire 'to catch the oakum she was employed in picking of;' all the houses and stores on both sides of Washington St. between School St. and Dock Square were laid in ashes." [12] Life in Boston, a weekly periodical (c. 1851) [13]