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View of Government Center from the Custom House Tower. Government Center is an area in downtown Boston, centered on City Hall Plaza.Formerly the site of Scollay Square, it is now the location of Boston City Hall, courthouses, state and federal office buildings, and a major MBTA subway station, also called Government Center.
The complex is officially known as the Joseph A. Langone, Jr. Memorial Center; it was named for the Massachusetts state senator in 1962. [3] [4] Older references have used the names "Government Service Center" (this name is easily confused with Government Center as a whole), the "State Services Center", or the "State Health, Education and Welfare Services Center".
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 ...
American House (Boston), demolished 19th-century building that stood on the site of the JFK Federal building; Hanover Street (Boston, Massachusetts), partially demolished; Scollay Square, now the site of Government Center; List of courthouses in Boston; List of memorials to John F. Kennedy; National Register of Historic Places listings in ...
Government Center station is an MBTA subway station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at the intersection of Tremont , Court and Cambridge Streets in the Government Center area. It is a transfer point between the light rail Green Line and the rapid transit Blue Line .
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First Town-House, Boston, built 1658. "The first Boston town house, constructed of wood on the site of the market-place, defined the town's political, social, and economic center by housing the colonial government, law courts, markets, and militia musters." [1]
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