Congress Street (Boston)

Congress Street in Boston, Massachusetts, is located in the Financial District and South Boston. It was first named in 1800. It was extended in 1854 (from State Street) as far as Atlantic Avenue, and in 1874 across Fort Point Channel into South Boston. Today's Congress Street consists of several segments of streets, previously named Atkinson's Street, Dalton Street, Gray's Alley, Leverett's Lane, Quaker Lane, and Shrimpton's Lane.[1][2]

Congress Street from Dock Square, Boston, 2010

See also

Boston Children's Museum Boston City Hall The Boston Post Boston Reds (1890–1891) Children's Wharf Congress Street Fire Station

Congress Street Grounds Dock Square (Boston, Massachusetts) Exchange Coffee House, Boston Government Center, Boston John Hancock Building Julien Hall (19th century)

Mobius Artists Group New England Holocaust Memorial Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts Russia Wharf Buildings Weekly Messenger newspaper World Trade Center (MBTA station)

Images

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  Julien's Restorator, corner of Milk Street and Congress St. (demolished 1824)
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  Dalton house, corner of Congress St. and Water St., Boston, c. 19th century
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  Detail of 1829 map of Boston, showing extent of Congress St.; (Atkinson St. would become part of Congress St. in 1854)
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  Issue No.1, The Liberator, 1831; published from Office #11, Merchants Hall, on Water Street at the corner of Congress Street, Boston
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  Advertisement for Welch & Griffiths, cast-steel saws, 1852
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  Advertisement for William Bond & Son, chronometer and watch makers, 1861
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  Congress St. after the fire of 1872
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  Congress St. (looking from Milk St.), after the fire, 1872; photo by John P. Soule
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  Detail of 1883 map of Boston, showing Congress St. and vicinity
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  Stock Exchange, Congress St., Boston, 1910s
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  Congress Street Bridge (at far right), 2007
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  Congress St., Boston, looking towards Merrimac St., 2010

References

1. Boston (Mass.). Street laying-out Dept. (1910), A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston (2 ed.), Boston: City of Boston Printing Dept., OL 16574538M
2. "Street Book". City of Boston. Retrieved 25 March 2010.

External links

• Bostonian Society has materials related to the street.
• "Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA". Historic American Engineering Record. Library of Congress.
• "Plan of the estates nos. 246 to 252 Congress corner of Purchase Street..., 1869". Boston Public Library.