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New England Telephone and Telegraph Building is a historic structure built in 1947 at 185 Franklin Street. It is a Pending Boston Landmark. A developer purchased the building in 2011 and renamed it "50 Post Office Square." [12] In this building, the laboratory in which the first telephone was built has been reconstructed. [13]
Franklin Street (established c. 1798) is located in the Financial District of Boston, ... Photo of Washington St. @ Franklin St., February 19, 1949; Boston Public ...
Franklin Street, Boston Dedicated in 1803, Holy Cross was the first Catholic church in Boston, it became the first cathedral in the new diocese in 1808. It was closed in 1860 and later demolished. [213] Our Lady of Mount Carmel: 128 Gove St, Boston (East Boston)
State Street Bank Building, also known as 225 Franklin Street, is a high-rise office building located in the Financial District, Boston, Massachusetts. The building stands at 477 feet (145 meters) with 33 floors and was completed in 1966. It is tied with 33 Arch Street as the 27th-tallest building in Boston.
The Church of the Holy Cross (1803-ca.1862) was located on Franklin Street in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1808 the church became the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. It was designed by Charles Bulfinch and was the first church built for the city's Roman Catholics. The last Mass was celebrated there on September 16, 1860. [1]
View of Franklin Street, Boston, an 1855 illustration demonstrating the street's bustle of carriages and pedestrians. Franklin Place, designed by Charles Bulfinch and built in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1793–95, included a row of sixteen three-story brick townhouses that extended in a 480-foot [1] curve, a small garden, and four double houses.
Franklin Square opened in 1849 and Blackstone Square subsequently opened in 1855. The St. James Hotel, now the Franklin Square House Apartments, served as the exterior backdrop of the popular 1980's NBC hospital drama series, St. Elsewhere. [5] In 1979, after years of neglect, local resident Brian Davidson began an effort to clean up the squares.
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.