Franklin Street (Boston)

Franklin Street, Boston, 2010

Franklin Street (established c. 1798) is located in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts.^[1] It was developed at the end of the 18th century by Charles Bulfinch, and included the now-demolished Tontine Crescent and Franklin Place.^[2]

Former tenants

George Melville Baker
Boston Library Society
Federal Street Theatre
Abram French & Co., crockery shop, 19th century
Holy Cross Church, Boston
Lee & Shepard

Gallery

Federal St. Theatre, corner of Federal and Franklin St., c. 1798
Detail of 1814 map of Boston, showing Franklin St., Franklin Place, and vicinity
Churchill, Collamore, & Co., China & Glass Warehouse, corner of Franklin and Washington St., c. 1825
Franklin St., c. 1830
Franklin St. after the fire, 1872
Parade, June 17, 1876
Photo by John P. Soule, 19th century
C.A. Browning & Co., 1904

References

↑ Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910.
↑ Walter Muir Whitehill. Boston: a topographical history, 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968; p.52

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Franklin Street (Boston, Massachusetts).

Library of Congress. Historic American Buildings Survey. Photos of Franklin and Washington St., 1967
City of Boston. Photo of Washington St. @ Franklin St., February 19, 1949
Boston Public Library. Flickr. Photo
Flickr

Coordinates: 42°21′19.91″N 71°3′22.79″W / 42.3555306°N 71.0563306°W / 42.3555306; -71.0563306

Streets and squares in Boston

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Franklin Street (Boston)

Former tenants

Gallery

See also

References

External links