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ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
There were no nagging preservationists when, in 1920, city officials decided to widen Charles Street on Beacon Hill. Wreckers simply lopped off the front 10 feet of the houses on the river side of the street. The old photo shows the facades of many of the houses being rebuilt after the massacre. The new photo reveals that a great deal of further rebuilding has occurred since then. Like so much of what we think of as historic Boston, this side of Charles...
There were no nagging preservationists when, in 1920, city officials decided to widen Charles Street on Beacon Hill. Wreckers simply lopped off the front 10 feet of the houses on the river side of the street. The old photo shows the facades of many of the houses being rebuilt after the massacre. The new photo reveals that a great deal of further rebuilding has occurred since then. Like so much of what we think of as historic Boston, this side of Charles...
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Location
Charles St & Mt Vernon St
Boston, MA 02108
United States
Boston, MA 02108
United States
Nearby Items
| Louisburg Square | 247 feet |  | ||
| Third Harrison Gray Otis House (American Meteorological Society) | 971 feet | | ||
| Oneida Football Tablet | 0.2 miles | | ||
| 57 Mt. Vernon Street | 0.2 miles | | ||
| Founders Memorial | 0.2 miles | | ||
| Nichols House Museum | 0.2 miles | | ||
| Vilna Shul | 0.3 miles | |
