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An 1806 map showing Washington Street—the earlier "Orange Street"—as the only road off the peninsula. The narrowest point was near today's crossing of the Massachusetts Turnpike. Washington Street begins at State and Court Streets as a one-way thoroughfare (for northbound traffic only
"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]
The Washington Street Elevated was an elevated segment of Boston's ... A 1967 MBTA map showing the Washington Street Elevated route, as it existed from 1938 to 1975 ...
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).
Huntington Avenue, Boston, near the Christian Science Center, as viewed from the Prudential Tower (2009). Huntington Avenue is a thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, beginning at Copley Square and continuing west through the Back Bay, Fenway, Longwood, and Mission Hill neighborhoods.
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.
The parkway begins at an intersection with Washington Street and Boston-Providence Highway in Dedham, essentially as a northward continuation of Providence Highway. It soon crosses into Boston, reaching a major junction near the Charles River with Bridge Street (the eastern terminus of Massachusetts Route 109) and Spring Street, where it takes on a more noticeably landscaped setting.
In 1908, the Washington Street tunnel opened, rerouting the Main Line. At this time, the Tremont Street subway was switched back to streetcar-only service. As a consequence, the southern junction (Tower D) was reconfigured, with the Main Line heading north from it on the east side of Washington Street to the Oak Street incline into the tunnel.