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The Berkeley Building (also known as the Old John Hancock Building) is a 26-story, 495-foot (151 m) structure located at 200 Berkeley Street, the second of the three John Hancock buildings built in Boston. The building, located in Boston's Back Bay, was designed by Cram and Ferguson and completed in 1947.
The Berkeley Building (also known as the Old John Hancock Building) is a 26-story, 495-foot (151 m) building located at 200 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is the second of the three John Hancock buildings built in Boston; it was succeeded by the John Hancock Tower.
The building was named for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, a developer and original tenant of the building, which itself was named for the U.S. Founding Father John Hancock. [10] In 2018 John Hancock Insurance, years after leaving the building, requested that its name be removed; the owner is seeking another naming rights deal. [10]
John Hancock, for whom John Hancock Insurance was named; Prudential Tower for an image of the Boston skyline from Cambridge in 1963, with the old 26-story Hancock building a conspicuous landmark. List of tallest buildings by U.S. state; List of tallest buildings in Boston
The tallest structure in Boston is the 60-story 200 Clarendon, better known to locals as the John Hancock Tower, which rises 790 feet (241 m) in the Back Bay district. [2] It is also the tallest building in New England and the 80th-tallest building in the United States.
The Stephen L. Brown Building (Parker, Thomas & Rice, 1922) was the first of the three Hancock buildings: The Old John Hancock Building ( Cram and Ferguson , 1947) was the tallest building in Back Bay until construction of the Prudential Tower.
The developer of Northland City Center plans to soon open 2 new 100-unit apartment buildings at the site, 1 of 3 old mall sites being redeveloped. Old Hudson's building is all that says 1970s ...
Unfinished Prudential Tower in 1963, dwarfs the Old John Hancock building at left The Prudential Tower began construction in 1960 with steel erection work by Donovan Steel. Upon its completion in 1964, the Prudential was the tenth tallest building in the world and the tallest building in North America outside of New York City , surpassing the ...