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Downtown & Financial District: Custom House Tower
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  • By rids on August 25, 2002
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    Custom House Tower Surrounded by 32 huge Doric columns, the Customs House was built in 1847. The Greek revival structure with monolithic Quincy granite columns was designed by Ammi Burnham Young. In 1915, it was surmounted by Peabody & Stearns’ 495-foot, 30-story Classical Revival-style tower. For more than 30 years it was the tallest building on the Boston skyline. Here duties were collected and maritime business conducted as Boston clipper ships circled the world. Not surprisingly, it is no longer the tallest skyscraper in New England, but it still adds character to the Boston skyline as seen from the harbor.

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  • Address: McKinley Square (State Street and India Street).
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    Downtown & Financial District: Old City Hall
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    Old City Hall Boston's Old City Hall was one of the first buildings in the French Second Empire Style to be built in the United States, and is now one of the few that survive. The design originated in France during the Second Empire (the reign of Emperor Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870). In Paris, this style gained popularity with the building of the new Louvre. After the completion of Boston's City Hall (1865) the French Second Empire Style was used extensively elsewhere in Boston and for many public buildings in the United States, such as the Executive Office Building in Washington D.C. as well as other city halls in Providence, Baltimore and Philadelphia. The major characteristic of this style is the mansard roof, a double pitched roof with a steep lower slope that has a boxy shape. Often the building will have a projecting center that is topped by a dome, and tall windows and doors that are flanked by pairs of columns.

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  • Address: 45 School Street.
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    Downtown & Financial District: The Custom House
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  • Updated By janchan on November 7, 2002
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    The Custom House Tower of Boston (1837-47) is one of the oldest skyscrapers of the city. It is now a Marriott hotel... very expensive, but the location is great.

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    Downtown & Financial District: Old Corner Bookstore
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  • Updated By zChris on June 17, 2003
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    The Old Corner Bookstore, for many years one of Boston's most famed monuments to literature, is now basically a tourist trap. But the knicknacks and cheap souvenirs which lie inside don't negate the significant contributions made to American literature via this structure. It's one of the oldest remaining in central Boston, built in 1713, and is now owned by the Boston Globe newspaper. Used as a meetingplace for years by prominent thinkers and authors among the Boston intellectual circles, it is, unfortunately, a treasured landmark turned sour. Admire how it stands in beautiful defiance of the hideous brutalist parking garage nextdoor, but don't dare venture inside.

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  • Directions: Washington and School Streets

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    Downtown & Financial District: Boston Things To Do Tip (Untitled)
  • Updated By Bigs on August 24, 2002
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    Downtown & Financial District: Opera House
  • By zChris on August 25, 2002
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    Downtown & Financial District: Old City Hall
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  • Directions: School Street at the head of Province Street, Downtown Crossing

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    Downtown & Financial District: Custom House Tower
  • By zChris on June 26, 2003
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  • Directions: State and Custom House Streets, Financial District T stops: State (Orange and Blue Lines), Aquarium (Blue Line)

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  • Address: Boston financial district

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