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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 ...
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. Its development was controversial, as the project displaced thousands of ...
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 ...
Downtown Boston is the central business district of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Boston was founded in 1630. The largest of the city's commercial districts, Downtown is the location of many corporate or regional headquarters; city, county, state and federal government facilities; and many of Boston's tourist attractions.
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".
The station previously served Scollay Square before its demolition for the creation of Boston City Hall Plaza. The station was closed on March 22, 2014 for a major renovation, which included retrofitting the station for accessibility and building a new glass headhouse on City Hall Plaza. The new fully accessible station was reopened on March 21 ...
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.
Detail of 1728 map of Boston, showing location of State House (letter "a" on map) ... "Remodeled for use as a city hall by [Gridley J.F.] Bryant, 1840-1841 ...