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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 ...
Description: Title: Boston City Hall Plaza, from 1 Beacon Street Creator: Peter H. Dreyer Date: 1973 October Source: Collection 9800.007, Peter H. Dreyer slide collection File name: 9800007_119 Photographer: Peter H. Dreyer Rights: Public Domain, Please credit Peter H. Dreyer
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 ...
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 ...
Shortly after the Boston City Hall design was unveiled, Paul Rudolph designed a plan for the Government Service Center site which was backed by a member of Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott and passed the BRA's approval process. The firms then agreed to design the buildings within Rudolph's scheme, with Rudolph as the coordinating architect.
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 ...
Boston's Old City Hall was home to its city council from 1865 to 1969. It was one of the first buildings in the French Second Empire style to be built in the United States. . After the building's completion, the Second Empire style was used extensively elsewhere in Boston and for many public buildings in the United States, including the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C ...
The Hall was restored again in 1992, and in 1994 the building was designated [12] a local Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. The headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts is located on the fourth floor and includes an armory, library, offices, quartermaster department, commissary, and a ...