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58 High St
Boston, MA


The Francis B. Austin House is a historic house at 58 High Street in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Second Empire style house was built in 1832 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Historical Place Near Francis B. Austin House

USS Constitution
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BLDG 5 Charlestown Navy Yard
Charlestown, MA 02129-1797

(617) 242-2543

USS CONSTITUTION: America's Ship of State / World's Oldest Commissioned Warship Afloat

Bunker Hill Monument
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31 Monument Sq
Charlestown, MA 02129

(617) 242-5641

The Bunker Hill Monument was erected to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was among the first major battles between British and Patriot forces in the American Revolutionary War, fought there June 17, 1775. The 221-foot (67 m) granite obelisk was erected between 1827 and 1843 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, with granite from nearby Quincy conveyed to the site via the purpose-built Granite Railway, followed by a trip by barge. There are 294 steps to the top.An exhibit lodge built adjacent to the monument in the late 19th century houses a statue of fallen hero Dr. Joseph Warren and a diorama of the battle. Bunker Hill is one of the sites along the Freedom Trail and is part of Boston National Historical Park.The monument underwent a $3.7 million renovation, completed in 2007, that included repairs, handicap accessibility improvements, and new lighting. The Bunker Hill Museum across the street was dedicated in June of that year and includes many exhibits about the battle. No admission charge applies to the museum or monument.BackgroundThe monument was one of the first in the United States. An earlier memorial at the site had been erected in memory of fallen Bunker Hill hero Dr. Joseph Warren, a Mason, in 1794 by King Solomon's Lodge of Masons, and was initially an 18 foot (5.5 m) wooden column topped with a gilt urn. In front of the obelisk is a statue of Col. William Prescott, a native of Groton, Massachusetts, another hero of Bunker Hill. According to popular stories, he coined the famous Revolutionary War phrase, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" during the battle. However, various writers attribute it to Putnam, Stark, Prescott or Gridley, while others question whether it was said at all.

Old North Church & Historic Site
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
193 Salem St
Boston, MA 02113

(617) 523-6676

The enduring fame of the Old North began on the evening of April 18, 1775, when the church sexton, Robert Newman, climbed the steeple and held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were marching to Lexington and Concord by sea and not by land. This fateful event ignited the American Revolution.

The Paul Revere House
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
19 North Sq
Boston, MA 02113

(617) 523-2338

Open Daily April 15 - October 31 - 9:30 am to 5:15 pm November 1 - April 14 - 9:30 am to 4:15 pm Closed on Mondays in January, February and March. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. The average visit is 30 - 45 minutes depending on the time of year. There are no public restrooms or telephones on the site.

Paul Revere Statue And The Old North Church
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
193 Salem St
Boston, MA 02113

(617) 858-8231

Copp's Hill Burying Ground
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
21 Hull St
Boston, MA 02113

(617) 635-4505

Copp's Hill Burying Ground is a historic cemetery in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1659, it was originally named "North Burying Ground", and was the city's second cemetery.HistoryThe cemetery was founded on February 20, 1659, when the town bought land on Copp's Hill from John Baker and Daniel Turell to start the "North Burying Ground". Now named "Copp's Hill Burying Ground" (although often referred to as "Copp's Hill Burial Ground"), it is the second oldest cemetery in Boston (second only to the King's Chapel Burying Ground founded in 1630). It contains more than 1200 marked graves, including the remains of various notable Bostonians from the colonial era into the 1850s.The first extension was made on January 7, 1708 when the town bought additional land from Judge Samuel Sewall and his wife Hannah. The land was part of a pasture which Mrs. Sewall had inherited from her father, John Hull, master of the mint.Benjamin Weld and his wife Nabby sold the second extension to the town for $10,000 on December 18, 1809 soon after they had bought it from Jonathan Merry, who had used it as pasture. Ten years later, Charles Wells, later mayor of Boston, bought a small parcel of land from John Bishop of Medford and used this as a cemetery that was later merged with the adjacent North Burying Ground. Because of this complicated history, it is no longer possible to discern the original boundaries of the cemetery.

Paul Revere Mall
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
HANOVER St
Boston, MA 02113

Navy Yard Bistro
Distance: 0.5 mi Competitive Analysis
1 6th St
Charlestown, MA 02129

(617) 242-0036

Charles Street Jail
Distance: 1.1 mi Competitive Analysis
215 Charles St
Boston, MA 02114

(617) 224-4000

The Charles Street Jail or "Suffolk County Jail" is an infamous former jail located at 215 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts. It is listed in the state and national Registers of Historic Places. The Liberty Hotel, as it is now known, has retained much of the historic structure, including the famed rotunda.HistoryThe jail was proposed by Mayor Martin Brimmer in his 1843 inaugural address as a replacement for the Leverett Street Jail which had been built in 1822. Normally jails of this sort were county institutions, but, since Boston, then and now, dominates Suffolk County, Mayor Brimmer was a key player in the jail's planning and development.The jail was constructed between 1848 and 1851 to plans by architect Gridley James Fox Bryant and the advice of prison reformer, Rev. Louis Dwight, who designed it according to the 1790s humanitarian scheme pioneered in England known as the Auburn Plan. The original jail was built in the form of a cross with four wings of Quincy granite extending from a central, octagonal rotunda with a 90ft atrium. The wings allowed segregation of prisoners by sex and category of offense, and thirty arched windows, each 33 feet high, provided ventilation and natural light. The original jail contained 220 granite cells, each 8x.Over the years, the jail has housed a number of famous inmates including James Michael Curley, Malcolm X, Sacco and Vanzetti, suffragists imprisoned for protests when President Woodrow Wilson visited Boston in 1919, and World War II prisoners of war from the German submarines and. The commanding officer of the latter U-boat, who died in the jail, was the brother of Operation Paperclip rocket scientist Ernst Steinhoff.

Old North Church Boston Freedom Trail
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
193 Salem Street
Boston, MA 02113

Charlestown Navy Yard
Distance: 0.4 mi Competitive Analysis
1 Constitution Rd
Boston, MA 02129

(617) 242-5601

Monument Square Historic District (Boston, Massachusetts)
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
1-50 Monument Square
Charlestown, MA 02129

Monument Square Historic District is a historic district north of Monument Square in Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston.The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 1987. On October 11, 1990, there was a boundary increase to include the area roughly bounded by Jamaicaway, Pond, Centre and Eliot streets.

Captain Jackson's Historic Chocolate Shop
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
21 Unity St
Boston, MA 02113

(617) 523-4848

Taste the sweeter side of the Revolution! Visitors will be able to touch, taste, smell, and experience 18th-century chocolate as it was enjoyed by some of Boston’s most famous Revolutionary-era patriots. Our costumed interpreters discuss the way colonial Americans prepared and consumed chocolate. Discover where chocolate comes from and how it is made. And after you have learned all there is to know about chocolate, you get a free taste of the delicious drink enjoyed by John and Abigail Adams. Be sure to follow our blog at http://chocolate.oldnorth.com for all your chocolate and colonial musings!

Mariners House
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
11 North Sq
Boston, MA 02113

(617) 227-0564

The Mariner's House is a historic hotel at 11 North Square in Boston, Massachusetts.It was built in 1847 by the Boston Port Society and operated as a boarding house for sailors by the Boston Seaman's Aid Society and the Port Society's chaplain, Father Taylor. Today it maintains the role of an inexpensive hotel for merchant mariners on active duty. It offers short term accommodations (maximum stay 13 days) starting at $65 including breakfast to guests who can prove that they are actively working in the merchant marine.The building was described in the 1850s: "This is a noble edifice of 4 stories, erected by the Boston Port Society, and leased to the Seamans' Aid Society : it contains 40 rooms over the basement story : the building is 40 feet square, with a wing extending 70 feet of three stories; in the basement is a storage room for seamens' luggage, kitchen; laundry and bathing room: in the wing, is a spacious dining hall for seating an hundred persons ': it has a chapel for morning and evening services arid where social, religious meetings are held every Wednesday evening under the care of Rev. E. T. Taylor : a reading and news room, with a good library to which accessions are daily making; and a store for the sale of sailors' clothing: the building and land cost about $38,000, and it has been furnished at a cost of about $21,000, by the generous contributions of the Unitarian Churches of Boston and vicinity; a good supply of water is on the estate, and two force pumps supply each of the stories with hot or cold water, as required."The hotel was built in the Greek Revival style and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

USS Constitution
Distance: 0.5 mi Competitive Analysis
Charlestown Navy Yard, Building 22, Charlestown, MA 02129
Boston, MA 44515

(617) 426-1812

State House
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
24 Beacon St
Boston, MA 02108

(617) 727-3676

Building at 138-142 Portland Street
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
138 Portland St # 142
Boston, MA 02114

The Building at 138—142 Portland Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The five-story Beaux Arts building was designed by Stephen Codman and built in 1896. The first floor has modern storefronts; the next three levels have brick pilasters separating the window bays with cast stone architraves. A cornice line separates the fifth level from the lower ones, and has oxeye windows at the building's rounded corners, and a dentillated cornice.The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and included in the Bulfinch Triangle Historic District in 1986.

Great Molasses Flood
Distance: 0.7 mi Competitive Analysis
529 Commercial Street
Boston, MA 02109

The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35mph, killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and for decades afterward residents claimed that on hot summer days the area still smelled of molasses.FloodThe disaster occurred at the Purity Distilling Company facility on January 15, 1919. The temperature had risen above 40F, climbing rapidly from the frigid temperatures of the preceding days.Molasses can be fermented to produce rum and ethanol, the active ingredient in other alcoholic beverages and a key component in the manufacturing of munitions. The stored molasses was awaiting transfer to the Purity plant situated between Willow Street and what is now named Evereteze Way, in Cambridge.At about 12:30 in the afternoon near Keany Square, at 529 Commercial Street, a molasses tank 50ft tall, 90ft in diameter, and containing as much as 2,300,000USgal, collapsed. Witnesses variously reported that as it collapsed they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train (coincidentally, with a line of that type close by), a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang!, and as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.

Mount Vernon Street Historic District
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29 Mount Vernon St
Somerville, MA 02145

The Mount Vernon Street Historic District is a historic district consisting of the even-numbered houses at 8—24 Mount Vernon Street in Somerville, Massachusetts. The district includes four modest Greek Revival houses built c. 1850, an earlier Federal period house, and a late 19th century Second Empire house, representing a progression of housing styles through the 19th century. The houses at 8, 12, 16, and 20 Mount Vernon are all well conserved Greek Revival 1.5 story buildings with side hall layout, although #12 has had synthetic siding applied. The house at #16 has preserved more of its exterior detailing than the others, while #20 is distinctive for its use of flushboard siding, giving the house the appearance of ashlar masonry work. Behind the house at #12 is a second house that is some external Greek Revival styling, but has a five bay center entrance layout more typical of the Federal period; it is known to predate the house in front of it. The duplex at 22-24 Mount Vernon has a mansard roof characteristic of the Second Empire style; its construction date is estimated to be c. 1880.Mount Vernon Street was platted out in 1845, and was located near the railroad line which had been laid across the Charlestown Neck in 1835. The area, which had previously been largely rural, developed as a comparatively suburban area with ready access to Boston, and was one of the earliest parts of what became Somerville to be developed in this way.The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Pierce–Hichborn House
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
29 North Sq
Boston, MA 02113

(617) 523-2338

The Pierce–Hichborn House is an early Georgian house located at 19 North Square, Boston, Massachusetts. It is immediately adjacent to the Paul Revere House and is now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere Memorial Association. An admission fee is charged.DesignThe Pierce–Hichborn House is three stories tall, faced in common-bond brickwork with decorative belt courses and large sash windows. Its narrow side elevation faces the street, with its main facade opening onto a compact private passageway. Inside it is laid out on each floor as a narrow central hallway and stairway with a single heated room to either side. Framing is oak and the trim is pine, including fireplace mantels. Originally each room had two front-facing windows and two side windows although later extensions to the side of the house farthest from the street eliminated those side windows. The house is not rectangular and its street-side corner is very sharp to take full advantage of the small urban lot.HistoryThe land on which the house sites was once owned by William and Anne Hutchinson, famous for their role in the Antinomian Controversy. The original dwelling was probably destroyed in the 1711 Boston fire. The house is an excellent example of early Georgian architecture and one of the earliest surviving brick structures in Boston. It was built by glazier Moses Pierce, the grandson of John Jeffs, who built the neighboring Paul Revere House thirty years earlier. Even then the neighborhood was urban, and the house stood three doors down the square from the Revere House. William Shippard purchased the house in 1747. Nathaniel Hichborn, a boatbuilder and cousin of Paul Revere, acquired the house from Shippard in 1781. The Hutchinson family lived in the house until 1864. It became a tenement and store until the early 1940s.

Local Business Near Francis B. Austin House

City Travel
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58 High St
Charlestown, MA

(617) 426-0442

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston
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60 High St
Charlestown, MA 02129

(617) 242-1775

Charlestown Lacrosse And Learning Center
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14 Green St
Boston, MA 02129

(617) 242-1813

High Pharmacy
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54 High St
Charlestown, MA 02129

(617) 242-0415

Boston Metro
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14 Green St
Charlestown, MA 01906

(857) 212-3887

Memorial Hall Inc
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14 Green St
Charlestown, MA 02129-3002

(617) 242-9328

Garrity Michael
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73 High St
Charlestown, MA 02129-3026

(617) 724-8135

Locksmith 123
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50 High St
Charlestown, MA 02129-3317

(617) 449-7483

Charlestown Library
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179 Main St
Boston, MA 02129

(617) 242-1248

First Church In Charlestown
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10 Green St
Charlestown, MA 02129-3002

(617) 242-3693

MGH Charlestown Clinic
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73 Hight St
Boston, MA 02129

Mgh Charlestown Healthcare Center Administrative Services
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73 Hight St
Charlestown, MA 02129

(617) 724-8135

MGH-Clinic
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77 hight street
Boston, MA 02129

Bunker Hill Health Center
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73 High St
Charlestown, MA 02129-3026

(617) 241-8342

Lindpaintner Lyn MD
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73 High St
Charlestown, MA 02129-3026

(617) 724-8135

Beck Sandy PA
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73 High St
Charlestown, MA 02129-3026

(617) 724-8160

The Cooperative Bank
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201 Main St
Charlestown, MA 02129-3201

(617) 242-0380

Snow Wayne Accountant
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201 Main St
Charlestown, MA 02129

(617) 242-3100

Mazow & Mazow Attorneys
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2 Dexter Row
Charlestown, MA 02129-3305

(617) 242-0321