Gate of Old City Hall - Boston, MA
Posted by: ToRo61
N 42° 21.465 W 071° 03.570
19T E 330392 N 4691552
Boston's Old City Hall was home to its city council from 1865 to 1969. It was one of the first buildings in the French Second Empire style to be built in the United States.
Waymark Code: WMT5P9
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2016
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Old City Hall, built between 1862 and 1865, is located at 45 School Street, along the Freedom Trail between the Old South Meeting House and King's Chapel. The Boston Latin School operated on the site from 1704 to 1748, and on the same street until 1844.
Boston City Hall habituées, 1910
Also on the site, the Suffolk County Courthouse was erected in 1810 and converted to Boston's second city hall in 1841, being replaced by the current building twenty-four years later. Thirty-eight Boston mayors, including John F. Fitzgerald, Maurice J. Tobin, and James Michael Curley, served their terms of office on School Street at this site over a period of 128 years.
With the move to the current Boston City Hall in 1969, Old City Hall was converted over the next two years to serve other functions.
Location of this 'Gate': On public property
Type of material: Iron
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