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Tontine Crescent - Jay Wickersham
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Description
ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Where do streets get their names? For Arch Street in downtown Boston, the answer is
simple. Arch Street once passed through an arch. The arch was the centerpiece of
one of the loveliest buildings Boston has ever known, the Tontine Crescent. Designed in 1793 by Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the State House, the crescent was a sweeping 480-foot curve, along Franklin Street, of 24 brick town houses. It was the most elegant row of dwellings in the nati...
Where do streets get their names? For Arch Street in downtown Boston, the answer is
simple. Arch Street once passed through an arch. The arch was the centerpiece of
one of the loveliest buildings Boston has ever known, the Tontine Crescent. Designed in 1793 by Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the State House, the crescent was a sweeping 480-foot curve, along Franklin Street, of 24 brick town houses. It was the most elegant row of dwellings in the nati...
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Location
Arch St & Milk St
Boston, MA 02109
United States
Boston, MA 02109
United States
Nearby Items
| Milk Street at Hawley Street | 131 feet |  | ||
| Boston Downtown | 280 feet | | ||
| Old South Meeting House | 442 feet | | ||
| Newspaper Row (Washington Street) | 461 feet | | ||
| Boston Irish Famine Memorial | 502 feet | | ||
| Boston Five Cents Savings Bank | 573 feet | | ||
| John W McCormack Post Office and Courthouse | 615 feet | |
