Faneuil Hall, located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1743. It was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain. Now it is part of Boston National Historical Park and a well-known stop on the Freedom Trail. It is sometimes referred to as "the Cradle of Liberty".In 2008, Faneuil Hall was rated number 4 in America's 25 Most Visited Tourist Sites by Forbes Traveler.History18th centuryAfter the project of erecting a public market house in Boston had been discussed for some years, merchant Peter Faneuil offered, at a public meeting in 1740, to build a suitable edifice at his own cost as a gift to the town. There was a strong opposition to market houses, and although a vote of thanks was passed unanimously, his offer was accepted by a majority of only seven. Funded in part by profits from slave trading, the building was begun in Dock Square in September of the same year. It was built by artist John Smibert in 1740–1742 in the style of an English country market, with an open ground floor serving as the market house, and an assembly room above. According to Sean Hennessey, a National Park Service spokesman, some of Boston's early slave auctions were located near Faneuil Hall.
Post Office Square in Boston, Massachusetts is located in the financial district at the intersection of Milk, Congress, Pearl and Water Streets. It was named in 1874 after the United States Post Office and Sub-Treasury which fronted it, now replaced by the John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse.As of 2009 the square is almost entirely occupied by a privately owned and managed but publicly accessible park, Norman B. Leventhal Park, named for the Boston building manager and designer who designed it. It sits above a parking garage, named "The Garage at Post Office Square." The garage lies below the surface, the deepest point of excavation in the city. Revenues from parking fund the maintenance of the park. The 1.7acre park is a popular lunchtime destination for area workers. It features a cafe, fountains, and a pergola around a central lawn, and the management provides seat cushions for visitors during the summer. Designed by landscape architects The Halvorson Company, the park is also home to "125 species of plants."HistoryPost Office Square was the site of a 1964 speech by Lyndon B. Johnson.There was a transformer explosion and fire in the One Post Office Square building in December 1986. An electric company worker was killed but fortunately it was after normal business hours and the building was able to be evacuated with only a few injuries.
60 State Street is a modern skyscraper on historic State Street in the Government Center neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Completed in 1977, it is Boston's 14th tallest building, standing 509 feet (155 m) tall, and housing 38 floors.
Haymarket is an MBTA subway station serving the Green and Orange lines, located at the corner of Congress and New Sudbury streets in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Haymarket allows transfers between the Orange and Green lines, as does North Station one stop to the north. Haymarket was named for Haymarket Square, which has served as a produce market since around 1830.Unusually, the two subway lines that converge at Haymarket are not stacked vertically underground, but instead are parallel at approximately the same level. The Orange Line access consists of two side platforms to serve the line's two tracks, while the Green Line is served by a single island platform which is divided mostly in half by a wall. Passenger transfers between lines require changing levels via stairs or elevator, so it may be preferable to transfer at more-spacious North Station, which also allows convenient cross-platform transfers for inbound trips.The station is fully wheelchair accessible.HistoryTremont Street SubwayThe Tremont Street Subway (future Green Line), including Haymarket, was built starting in 1894 and opened on September 3, 1898. The original trolley station was much more spacious than the current station, and consisted of four tracks with a pair of island platforms. The inner pair of tracks served cars from the northern suburbs which turned at Brattle Loop at Scollay Square (now Government Center) station, while the outer tracks served streetcars that ran through the entire Tremont Street Subway to the Public Gardens Portal and Pleasant Street Portal. All cars entered the subway through the Canal Street Incline just north of Haymarket.
The Custom House Tower is a skyscraper in McKinley Square, in the Financial District neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Construction began in the mid-19th century; the tower was added in the 1910s. Standing at 496ft tall, the tower is currently Boston's 17th-tallest building., it houses the Marriott Custom House Hotel.The tower is part of the Custom House District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The New England Holocaust Memorial is a memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. It is dedicated to the Jews who were killed in the Holocaust.InformationDesigned by Stanley Saitowitz and erected in 1995, the memorial consists of six glass towers under which a visitor may walk. Engraved on the outside walls of each tower are groups of numbers representing the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Inscribed on the inner walls are quotes from survivors of each camp. Underneath the towers, steam rises up through metal grates from a dark floor with twinkling lights on it.Each tower symbolizes a different major extermination camp (Majdanek, Chełmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Bełżec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau), but can also be taken to be menorah candles, the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust (one million per column), and the six years that the mass extermination took place, 1939-1945.Each tower consists of twenty-four individual panels of glass. Twenty-two of the panels are inscribed with seven digit numbers and two of the panels are inscribed with messages. In total there are 132 panels from the six towers inscribed with numbers, however each panel is identical. A single panel contains 17,280 unique numbers which are subsequently repeated throughout the memorial. Numbers are arranged in eight by ten blocks, with each block consisting of sets of six numbers arranged in a six by six grid. In total there are 2,280,960 non-unique numbers listed on the 132 panels.
Millennium Tower Boston is rising now. This official page will follow this site's construction and the area's transformation as it unfolds, offering glimpses into the future of downtown Boston. We will be the first to share information about the residences, the amenities and the lifestyle to come at Millennium Tower.
75 State Street is a high-rise building located in the Financial District, Boston, Massachusetts. The design architect was Gund Architects of Boston, in association with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The 31-story building rises to a height of 118.9m, and has a floor area of 93088m2.The building is currently managed by Brookfield Properties.TenantsLPL FinancialSantander BankGrant Thornton LLPHollister StaffingL.E.K. ConsultingCDM Smith
Boston National Historical Park is a unique collaboration of federally, municipally, and privately owned and operated historic sites associated with the colonial struggle for independence and the birth and growth of the nation. These nationally significant attractions include the Old South Meeting House, the Old State House, Faneuil Hall, the Old North Church, the Paul Revere House, the Bunker Hill Monument, the Bunker Hill Museum, Dorchester Heights, and the Charlestown Navy Yard including USS Constitution, the USS Constitution Museum, and USS Cassin Young.
One Beacon Street is a modern skyscraper in the Government Center neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1972 and refurbished in 1991, it is Boston's 15th-tallest building, standing 505 feet (154 m) tall, and housing 37 floors. Its position near the top of Beacon Hill gives the building a commanding presence, though it is located away from many other Boston skyscrapers.The tower houses a broadcast mast on the roof, painted red and white. With its broadcast mast included, One Beacon Street is the 4th-tallest building in Boston (when measuring to pinnacle height), rising 623 feet (190 m). Apart from the mast, the roof of the building is flat and has no crown.OwnersIn July 2014 MetLife and Norges Bank Investment Management announced that they paid approximately $561 million for the One Beacon Street office building.TenantsThe United States Census Bureau Boston Regional Center is on the 7th Floor.Standard Life Investments is on the 34th Floor.The UMass Club is on the 32nd floorArchitecture and design firm NBBJ has a Boston studio on the 5th Floor.The broadcast mast was once used by television station WMFP Channel 62, until the station's transmitter was relocated to the Needham/Newton antenna farm.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The SJC has the distinction of being the oldest continuously functioning appellate court in the Americas, with a recognized history dating to the establishment of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature in 1692 under the charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.Although it was historically composed of four associate justices and one chief justice, the court is currently composed of six associate justices and one chief justice.HistoryThe Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court traces its history back to the high court of the British Province of Massachusetts Bay, which was chartered in 1692. Under the terms of that charter, Governor Sir William Phips established the Superior Court of Judicature as the province's local court of last resort (some of the court's decisions could be appealed to courts in England). When the Massachusetts State Constitution was established in 1780, legislative and judicial records show that the state's high court, although renamed, was a continuation of provincial high court. During and after the period of the American Revolution the court had members who were appointed by royal governors, the executive council of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress (which acted as the state's executive from 1775 to 1780), and governors elected under the state constitution.
The Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts (PFFM) represents over 12,000 Union Fire Fighters from across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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MassModern is a private gallery that collects, researches, shows, and trades in 20th Century Modern design. We specialize in Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Ames Building is a skyscraper located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is sometimes ranked as the tallest building in Boston from its completion in 1893 until 1915, when the Custom House Tower was built. However, the building was never the tallest structure in Boston. The steeple of the Church of the Covenant, completed in 1867, was much taller than the Ames Building. Nevertheless, it is considered to be Boston's first skyscraper. In 2007, the office building was converted to a luxury hotel.HistoryLocated at 1 Court Street and Washington Mall in downtown Boston, the Ames Building was designed by the architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge in Richardsonian Romanesque and paid for by Frederick L. Ames. It is the second tallest masonry load bearing-wall structure in the world, exceeded only by the Monadnock Building in Chicago, completed that same year. It is thirteen stories high with a three-story granite base and sandstone and brick. The sandstone is from the Berea formation in Ohio and was supplied by Cleveland Quarries Company. Construction was completed in 1889, but interior work was not completed for occupancy until 1893. It became the corporate headquarters for the Ames families' agricultural tool company.
BOSTON CAMPUS GEAR is located at Faneuil Hall Marketplace and The Prudential Center in Boston, we are dedicated to bringing you the best in collegiate wear and accessories from the finest universities in the Boston area. www.bostoncampusgear.com
The Old State House is a historic building in Boston, Massachusetts, at the intersection of Washington and State Streets. Built in 1713, it was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798, and is one of the oldest public buildings in the United States. One of the landmarks on Boston's Freedom Trail, it is the oldest surviving public building in Boston, and now serves as a history museum operated by the Bostonian Society. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1994.HistoryThe Massachusetts Town House: seat of colony government 1713–1776Today's brick Old State House was built in 1712–13, possibly designed by Robert Twelves; the previous building, the wooden Town House of 1657, had burned in the fire of 1711. A notable feature was the pair of seven-foot tall wooden figures depicting a lion and unicorn, symbols of the British monarchy.The building housed a Merchant's Exchange on the first floor and warehouses in the basement. On the second floor, the east side contained the Council Chamber of the Royal Governor while the west end of the second floor contained chambers for the Courts of Suffolk County and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The central portion contained the chambers for the elected Massachusetts Assembly. This chamber is notable for including public galleries, the first known example of such a feature being included in a chamber for elected officials in the English-speaking world.
老州议会大厦（Old State House）是美国波士顿的一座古老的红砖建筑，兴建于1712-1713年，1711年第一座木质的市政厅（建于1657年）毁于火灾之后。老州议会大厦位于华盛顿街（Washington Street）和州街（State Street）的路口。这是波士顿最古老的公共建筑，也是自由之路的一站。历史1776年7月18日，在老州议会大厦的东侧阳台，独立宣言首次向欢腾的人群宣读。当时，大陆军已经将英国军队赶出波士顿。美国革命后，这座建筑用作马萨诸塞州政府，直到1798年迁入今天的马萨诸塞州议会大厦。从1830年至1841年，这座建筑一度成为波士顿市政厅，后来改为商业用途。 1976年7月11日，英国女王伊丽莎白二世参加美国二百周年纪念庆祝活动，参观了老州议会大厦。现状今天，波士顿金融区的高层建筑包围了老州议会大厦，但是沿州街仍能看到港口。老州议会大厦已成为一个主要的公共交通连接点，并且自1904年起，是地铁蓝线和橙线的州街站上盖。大厦内由波士顿人协会（The Bostonian Society）管理，设有博物馆。老州议会大厦是一个热门的婚礼场所，仪式通常是在东侧毗邻的阳台房间举行，夫妇常在仪式之后再阳台上拍照。参考文献 Old State House History. The Bostonian Society. May 16, 2005. Boston Celebrates July '76, Boston 200 Office of the Boston Bicentennial, Kevin H. White, Mayor. Published Boston, MA: Addison House, 1976. ISBN 0-89169-011-5 (paperback) and 0-89169-010-7 (cloth). King's handbook of Boston. 1885. Michael Hollleran. "The Old South: the meetinghouse and the American preservation movement," in Old-Time New England, spring/summer 1998.外部链接 Boston Historical Society - Old State House Boston National Historical Park Official Website Freedom Trail Foundation (Official website of the Freedom Trail)
旧マサチューセッツ州会議事堂（きゅうマサチューセッツしゅうかいぎじどう、英：）は、アメリカ合衆国マサチューセッツ州ボストンにある、同州の旧議事堂である。ワシントン・ストリートとステート・ストリートの交差点に位置する。1713年に建築され、ボストンで最も歴史のある公共の建物であり、また新世界の中で選挙により選ばれた議会の議事堂としても初めてのものである。現在、ボストンの歴史学協会であるボストニアン・ソサエティが運営している。ボストンのウォーキングルート、フリーダムトレイルが通る観光スポットの一つとなっている。建築現在のブロック造りの旧州議事堂は、1712年から1713年にかけて建設されたもので、ロバート・トウェルヴズによって設計されたものではないかと考えられている。その前には1657年に建てられた木造の役場があったが、1711年に火事で焼けてしまった。旧州議事堂の建物には、何度か改築・修復工事が加えられている。1747年火事に遭った後、1748年に再建された。1830年、アイザイア・ロジャーズによる改築が行われた。1832年には再び火事で損傷し、1881年から1882年にかけてジョージ・A・クラフによって修復工事が行われた。1904年以降、地下鉄がこの建物の地下の一部を通っている。1907年にはジョセフ・エバレット・チャンドラーによって再び修復工事が行われた。1990年にはグッディ・クランシー・アンド・アソシエイツによって更なる修復工事が行われた。修復工事の際、地下鉄工事の時に取り付けられた支えのパッキン材がさびついており、そのために煉瓦の壁にひび割れが生じているのが分かった。歴史植民地時代～独立戦争もともと、この建物には1階に商人の取引所、地下室に倉庫が設けられていた。2階の東側には総督の会議室、西の端にはサフォーク郡裁判所及びマサチューセッツ邦最高裁判所の裁判官室が置かれていた。2階中央には選挙で選ばれたマサチューセッツ邦議会の議場が置かれた。この議場は、公衆の傍聴席があることで注目され、選挙された議員の議場に傍聴席が設けられた例としては、知られている限り初めてである。1761年、弁護士のジェイムズ・オーティスが、総督会議室で、援助令状（関税徴収に関する捜査協力令状）の発付に対し反駁する弁論を行った。オーティスは敗訴したものの、その弁論はアメリカ独立戦争へつながっていく一つの出来事となった。独立戦争中、印紙法会議がマサチューセッツ邦議会で結成された。1770年3月5日、5人の植民地人がイギリス兵によって殺されるボストン虐殺事件が、この建物の東側すぐの場所で起きた。1776年7月18日、アメリカ独立宣言が、トーマス・クラフツ大佐（自由の息子達の1人）によって、この建物の東側バルコニーから、沸き立つ群衆に対して読み上げられた。午後1時、まずクラフツが議場の中で立ち上がり、議員らに対して独立宣言書を読み上げた。そしてウィリアム・グリーンリーフ保安官がバルコニーからそれを読み上げようとしたが、声がかすれて出なかった。そこでクラフツが保安官の隣に立ち、力強い声で独立宣言書を読み上げた。その後、合図を受けて、フォートヒルの要塞から13発の大砲が鳴らされた。ドーチェスター・ネック、キャッスル、ナンタスケット、ポイント・オールダートンの要塞でも、同じように大砲を発射した。さらに、砲兵分遣隊が大砲を13回発射し、それに続いて二つの連隊が13の部隊から続けざまに13発を撃ち鳴らした。13発という数字は、この時独立したアメリカの邦（後の州）の数である。式典は、議場のメンバーらの軽食で締めくくられた。議長が次のものに対して乾杯し、列席者がこれを固く誓った。 アメリカ合衆国の繁栄と永続 アメリカ議会 ワシントン将軍及びアメリカ合衆国軍の成功 暴君と暴政の打倒 市民的・宗教的自由の普遍的な広がり 地球上のあらゆる場所にある合衆国の友 街の鐘が鳴らされ、皆が祝祭を喜び合った。その夜、イギリス国王の紋章やそれに類するマーク――ライオンと王冠、乳棒と乳鉢、心臓と王冠など――は、トーリー党のマークとともに取り払われた。