The
Chester Harding House , a
National Historic Landmark occupied by portrait painter
Chester Harding from 1826–1830, now houses the
Boston Bar Association .
The List of notable addresses in
Beacon Hill, Boston contains information, by street, of significant buildings and the people who lived in the community. Many of the street names have changed. For instance, Phillips street was once called Southack Street.
Current and former street names
Map of Beacon Hill from 1842
Anderson Street – West Centre Street
Bowdoin Street – Middlecott Street
Bulfinch Street
Court Street – Prison Lane, then Queen Street
Howard – Southack's Court (after Capt.
Cyprian Southack )
Irving Street – Butolph Street
Joy Street
Clapboard Street (between Cambridge and Myrtle Streets in 1735)
Belknap Lane (between Myrtle and Mount Vernon Streets)
Mt. Vernon Street – Sumner
Phillips Street – Southack Street (after Capt. Cyprian Southack)
Revere Street – May Street
Smith Court – May's Court
State Street – King Street
Tremont – Common (NE of School Street where Beacon Street ends)
West Cedar Street – George Street
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Notable addresses in Beacon Hill
Beacon Street
Beacon Street, 1887
Beacon Street, 2010
Beacon Street is a main thoroughfare from the
Tremont Street and
School Street intersection to
Charles Street .
Hancock Manor was located at 30 Beacon Street; Its land is now part of the grounds of the
Massachusetts State House .
One Beacon Street – An eponymous office tower at the corner of Tremont Street; the
14th-tallest building in the city
8 Beacon Street – late 19th- and early 20th-century home of the Osgood Family: Dr. Osgood, Margaret Osgood and daughters
Gretchen and
Mary
10½ Beacon Street –
Boston Athenæum
14 Beacon Street –
Congregational House , site of the Congregational Library and City Mission Society
16 Beacon Street –
Chester Harding House , now home to the
Boston Bar Association , was home to the famous portrait painter
Chester Harding from 1826–1830
22 Beacon Street –
Amory-Ticknor House , built in 1804 by
Charles Bulfinch ; used to house the Beacon Hill studio for
Fox 25 News (WFXT) , with a strategic rooftop camera position
24 Beacon Street –
Massachusetts State House
25 Beacon Street – former headquarters of the
Unitarian Universalist Association , an international
liberal
religious denomination , which is now located at 24 Farnsworth Street
33 Beacon Street – resident
George Parkman ; building designed by
Cornelius Coolidge
[2]
[3]
34½ Beacon Street – erstwhile headquarters of
Family Service of Greater Boston , a private, nonprofit
social service agency founded in 1835
39–40 Beacon Street –
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow courted and married Fanny Appleton
42–43 Beacon Street – painter
John Singleton Copley had a house on this site, as did
David Sears II , whose house is now the home of the
Somerset Club
45 Beacon Street –
Third Harrison Gray Otis House , now
American Meteorological Society
57 Beacon Street - Thomas J. Eckley house, Ephraim Marsh, architect (1819). Notable as town residence of George Nixon Black, Jr., also owner of
Kragsyde , iconic Shingle Style cottage and
Woodlawn Museum , his
Asher Benjamin ancestral home in Maine. Black was a major benefactor of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston .
54–55 Beacon Street – resident
William H. Prescott had
William Makepeace Thackeray as a houseguest. The pair of buildings is now the
Headquarters House
84 Beacon Street – Cheers Beacon Hill. Formerly known as the
Bull & Finch Pub , this pub was the inspiration for the classic television show,
Cheers , and was shown during the opening credits of the sitcom.
Bowdoin Street
Bowdoin Street, 2010
Located near the
West End ,
Bowdoin Street extends from the top of
Beacon Street , down
Beacon Hill to Cambridge Street
Brimmer Street
Cambridge Street
View of downtown from
Massachusetts General Hospital , Cambridge Street, Beacon Hill
Charles Street
Running north to south,
Charles Street runs through the middle of Boston.
Chestnut Street
Chestnut Street
Grove Street
28 Grove Street – resident Rev. Leonard A. Grimes, prominent black clergyman associated with the
Underground Railroad and
abolitionist movement. Noted for being one of the men who bought the freedom of
Anthony Burns after his arrest.
Irving Street
Joy Street, c. 19th century
Joy Street
Louisburg Square
Named for the
Siege of Louisbourg , the square is a private park and the name of the area around it.
Mount Vernon Street
Second Harrison Gray Otis House , 85 Mount Vernon Street
A door knocker in Beacon Hill, Boston
5 Mount Vernon Street – former site of
Dr. Park 's "Boston Lyceum for the Education of Young Ladies"
[4]
8 Mount Vernon Street – home of
Fiske Warren and
Gretchen Osgood Warren
32 Mount Vernon Street – residents Dr.
Samuel Gridley Howe and his wife
Julia Ward Howe
41 Mount Vernon Street – home of
Beacon Press , a department of the
Unitarian Universalist Association , that published the Senator
Mike Gravel edition of the
Pentagon Papers in 1971, which is now located at 24 Farnsworth Street. Former home of the
Watch and Ward Society
[5]
[6]
45–47 Mount Vernon Street – site of
Portia School of Law , founded for women in 1908
51–57 Mount Vernon Street – architect
Charles Bulfinch
55 Mount Vernon Street – home of
Rose Standish Nichols , now the Nichols House Museum
[7]
57 Mount Vernon Street – residents
Daniel Webster and later
Charles Francis Adams
67 Mount Vernon Street – home of Samuel Dennis and Susan Cornelia Warren, paper manufacturer and one time president of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
72 Mount Vernon Street – site of the
Boston University School of Theology
76 Mount Vernon Street – home of
Margaret Deland
77 Mount Vernon Street – resident Sarah Wyman Whitman and later the clubhouse of the
Club of Odd Volumes
85 Mount Vernon Street –
Second Harrison Gray Otis House , architect
Charles Bulfinch
87 Mount Vernon Street – Colonial Society of Massachusetts, architect
Charles Bulfinch
[8]
127 Mount Vernon Street – home of
The Real World: Boston and
Spenser: For Hire , former
Boston Fire Department station
Myrtle Street
109 Myrtle Street – resident
Lysander Spooner , an American individualist anarchist.
Park Street
Park Street is a small but notable road.
Phillips Street
Formerly known as Southack Court, after the owner
Cyprian Southack
Pinckney Street
Smith Court
William C. Nell House
Tremont Street
Tremont Street is a main thoroughfare; Its name evolved from trimount including Beacon Hill, Mount Vernon and Pemberton Hill.
Beacon Theatre was once located at 47–53 Tremont Street.
Other residents
Writers
Brad Meltzer and
Judd Winick lived in a tiny apartment in Beacon Hill in 1993 before they achieved success. While living there, Winick developed his first successful
comic strip and Meltzer worked at
Games Magazine by day while working on his first novel at night.
References
^ Boston Street Laying-Out Department (1910). A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston .
^
a
b Michael and Susan Southworth (2008). AIA guide to Boston (3rd ed.). Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot.
ISBN
9780762743377 .
^
"Our Flag over the Common" . Northeastern Alumni Magazine . 32 (3). Northeastern University: 56–60 (of pdf). Spring 2007. Retrieved April 27, 2013 . [
permanent dead link ]
^
Boston Directory . John Norman. 1823.
^ Miller, Neil (2010). Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil . Beacon Press.
ISBN
978-0-8070-5112-2 .
^
"Photograph of 41 Mt. Vernon Street, April 6, 1947" . Archived from
the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 8, 2014 – via Bostonian Society.
^
"Welcome" . Nichols House Museum. Retrieved April 27, 2013 .
^ Elton W. Hall.
"The Colonial Society's House: 87 Mount Vernon Street, Boston" . Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Archived from
the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved April 29, 2012 .
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