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Governor Chub Peabody and Mayor John F. Collins at the building's groundbreaking City Hall construction, c. 1960s Boston City Hall, c. 1968 Boston City Hall's interior courtyard in 1981 An aerial view of Boston City Hall in 2019. Boston City Hall was designed by Gerhard Kallmann, a Columbia University professor, [2] and Michael McKinnell, a ...
Boston City Hall. The dominant feature of Government Center is the enormous, imposing, and brutalist Boston City Hall, [4] designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood and built in the 1960s as part of Boston's first large urban renewal scheme. While considered by some to have architectural merit, the building is not universally admired, and is ...
Aerial view of Boston City Hall Plaza, 2019. City Hall Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts, is a large, open, public space in the Government Center area of the city. The architectural firm Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles designed the plaza in 1962 to accompany Boston's new City Hall building. The multi-level, irregularly shaped plaza consists of red ...
Old City Hall (Boston), seat of municipal government 1865–1969 Suffolk County Courthouse , seat of municipal government c. 1841 –1865 Old State House (Boston, Massachusetts) , seat of municipal government c. 1830 –1841
Boston City Hall habituées, c. 1910 Statue of Benjamin Franklin. Old City Hall, built between 1862 and 1865, is located at 45 School Street, along the Freedom Trail between the Old South Meeting House and King's Chapel. The Boston Latin School operated on the site from 1704 to 1748, and on the same street until 1844.
From 1830 to 1841, the building was Boston's city hall. The city's offices had been in the County Court House. In 1830, Isaiah Rogers altered the building's interior in a Greek Revival style, most notably adding the spiral staircase that remains today. The building was damaged by fire in 1832. [6] City Hall shared the building with the Boston ...
Suffolk County Courthouse, also called Johnson Hall; built 1810 by Charles Bulfinch, School Street, Boston. Functioned as county court (1810-1841) and U.S. court (1810-1836). "Remodeled for use as a city hall by [Gridley J.F.] Bryant, 1840-1841. Demolished 1863." [8]
The architecture of Boston is a robust combination of old and new architecture. As one of the oldest cities in North America, Boston, Massachusetts (along with its surrounding area) has accumulated buildings and structures ranging from the 17th-century to the present day, having evolved from a small port town to a large cosmopolitan center for education, industry, finance, and technology.