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The David Sears House is a historic house located along Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The three-story house was built in several stages between 1816 and 1875.
The Custom House Tower is a skyscraper in McKinley Square, in the Financial District neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The original building was constructed in 1837–47 and was designed by Ammi Burnham Young in the Greek Revival style. The tower was designed by Peabody and Stearns and was added in 1913–15. [1] The building is part of ...
The Omni Parker House is a historic hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1855. The current hotel structure dates to 1927. The current hotel structure dates to 1927. Located at the corner of School Street and Tremont , not far from the seat of the Massachusetts state government, the hotel has long been a rendezvous for politicians.
Originally a jazz club, it was named after Storyville district of New Orleans. It was first located in the 1940s at the Copley Square Hotel, but soon relocated to Harvard Square. In 1950 [9] it was relocated again to the ground floor of the Hotel Buckminster in Kenmore Square. [46] [47] [11]
The Custom House in Boston, Massachusetts, was established in the 17th century and stood near the waterfront in several successive locations through the years. In 1849 the U.S. federal government constructed a neoclassical building on State Street ; it remains the "Custom House" known to Bostonians today.
The name "Combat Zone" was popularized through a series of exposé articles on the area Jean Cole wrote for the Boston Daily Record in the 1960s. [1] The moniker described an area that resembled a war zone both because of its well-known crime and violence, and because many soldiers and sailors on shore leave from the Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard frequented the many strip clubs and brothels ...
1st Harrison Gray Otis House on Cambridge Street. The first Otis house, built in 1796, is located at 141 Cambridge Street, next to the Old West Church in Boston's West End. It is now a National Historic Landmark, and a historic house museum owned and operated by Historic New England, which also uses part of it as its administrative headquarters.
Exchange Club Building (1893), 22 Batterymarch Street; Farlow Building (1895), 92 State Street [5] Fidelity Building (1915), 144–148 State Street; Flour and Grain Exchange Building, aka Boston Chamber of Commerce (1892), 177 Milk Street; India Building (1903), 74–84 State Street [6] Insurance Exchange Building (1923), 24–44 Broad Street