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From the Parthenon through Palladio to the Paris 1 Old State House – Erected 1712-1713 by builder in the 1980s to memorialize the Hungarian Revolution. bqOld South Meeting House – 1729, Washington of Napoleon III and Beyond. Meander through the William Payne; rebuilt 1738; Alterations by Isaiah Rogers The Appleton Building was built in 1926 from designs Street at Milk Street, Joshua Blanchard, builder. narrow and crooked streets of Boston’s downtown, in in 1830; Restoration: George A. Clough, 1881-1882; by Coolidge and Shattuck. Powerful, austere Classical Influenced by the London ecclesiastical architecture search of Greek temples, Egyptian gateways, French Renovation: Goody, Clancy & Associates, 1991. Anglo Revival edifice exhibits memorable curved Liberty of Christopher Wren, Old South replaced a 1670 meet- Second Empire commercial palaces, and Art Deco Dutch design influence. Political and commercial center Square facade. ing house that had been located on this site. On a towers. We will view the site of Bulfinch’s Tontine of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. cold December night in 1773, more than 500 gathered bkHotel Meridien – 1922, Pearl at Franklin Street, Crescent, as well as a building modeled on the at Old South to protest against the hated tea tax. 2 Stock Exchange Building and Exchange Place – Designed by R. Clipston. Renaissance Revival bank Tontine’s center pavilion. Among 20 featured stops Samuel Adams delivered a fiery speech to the irate 53 State Street, 1889-1891, Peabody & Stearns architects. transformed into 330-room hotel in 1981 by Jung, will be the Stock Exchange Building, Custom House, Bostonians, triggering the Boston Tea Party. Facade of Stock Exchange saved during the early 1980s. Brannen Associates. New England Telephone Headquarters Building, the Building located on the site of the Colonial era Bunch brOld Corner Book Store – Formerly the Thomas Crease Old South Meeting House, and Old City Hall. blPost Office Square Park – Congress, Franklin, Pearl of Grapes Tavern. House, c.1710s, 285 Washington Street; renovation and Milk streets, landscape design by The Halvorson and rear addition, 1828; Restoration by Francis N. 75 State Street – 1988, Graham Gund architects. Company, Inc., 1991; park structures and underground 3 Cummings in 1960-1961. Originally the site of the Orientation Lavish use of brass, marble and wood in lobby. garage by Ellenzweig Associates. Highly successful house of the “religious heretic” Anne Hutchinson, Mid-1980s Post Modernism at its most opulent. green space with seven levels of underground parking The tour starts at the Old State House at Congress this venerable brick building was built for apothecary than can accommodate 1,400 cars. and State Streets. 4 Richards Building – Mid-nineteenth century, Thomas Crease after a fire destroyed Hutchinson’s 114 State Street; cast iron facade fabricated in Italy. bmNew England Telephone Headquarters Building – home in 1711. During the mid-19th century, this building 1947, Cram and Ferguson architects. Late example of housed Ticknor and Fields publishing company and 5 Custom House – 1837-1847, State Street at India Art Deco. Lobby noteworthy for recreation of inventor the offices of The Atlantic Monthly Magazine. Street, Ami Burnham Young, architect. Tower addition, Alexander Graham Bell’s garret as well as Dean 1913-1915 by Peabody & Stearns. Interesting marriage bsWinthrop Building – 1893, 276-278 Washington Cornwell’s colorful mural called Telephone Men and of a Greek Revival temple and a 30-story tower. When Street, Clarence Blackall, Architect. First steel frame Women at Work (1951). installed in 1916, the 4-sided marble and bronze clock “skyscraper” in Boston. was the largest in the U.S. bnSite of Bulfinch’s Tontine Crescent – Franklin Street. btOld City Hall [WalkBoston office] – Early 1860s, Built in 1793-1794, this sophisticated residential devel- 6 State Street Block – 1858, 1 McKinley Square, 45 School Street, Gridley J. Fox Bryant and Arthur opment was inspired by the crescents and circuses of Gridley J. Fox Bryant, architect. Fine, robust example Gilman, architects. Adapted for reuse by Anderson, Bath, England. The Tontine featured a center pavilion of Boston Granite architecture. Notter Associates, 1969-1970. Fine example of French flanked on either side by eight row houses. Across Second Empire public building. Note Richard S. 7 Central Wharf Buildings –1816-1817, 146-176 Milk the street were double town houses, while the oval Greenough’s Statue of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Street, attributed to Charles Bulfinch. Only eight of park in the middle of Franklin Street set a precedent Ball’s statue of Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy. the original 54 buildings survive. Originally extended for Louisburg Square (1834-1848) and the squares of beyond the expressway to the wharf where the the South End (1850s). The Tontine was demolished ckKirstein Business Branch – 1930, 20 City Hall Aquarium now stands. during the late 1850s. Avenue, Putnam & Cox, architects. Federal Revival facade copies Bulfinch’s center pavilion of the Tontine 8 Grain and Flour Exchange Building – 1891-1893, boWigglesworth Building – 1873, 89-93 Franklin Crescent. Currently houses a library specializing in 177 Milk Street, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, archi- Street at Winthrop Square. One of approximately one business and financial references. tects. Constructed of Milford granite by Henry Hobson dozen buildings in the Franklin/Winthrop Square area Richardson’s successor firm. that were built right after the Great Fire of 1872. 9 Liberty Square/Appleton Building – Intersection of bpBoston Transcript Building/Boston Post Building – Milk and Batterymarch, named Liberty Square at the Transcript Building built in 1873, 322-328 Washington end of the 18th century when a 60-foot liberty pole Street, Gridley J. Fox Bryant, architect. Boston Post was set up to commemorate the Stamp Act riots that Building, 17 Milk Street, Peabody & Stearns architects. took place here in 1765. The 18-foot figural sculpture Post-Great Fire of 1872 buildings housed newspaper in the square created by Gyuri Hollosy was installed publishers. Map: Ken Dumas | Text: Ed Gordon | Design: Nina Garfinkle