Massachusetts
Suffolk
City of Boston

Old City Hall

Old City Hall is a building at 45 School Street in , , U.S, which housed the Boston City Council from 1865 to 1969. Designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant and Arthur Gilman, it was one of the first buildings in the French Second Empire style to be built in the United States.
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  • Type: Historic building
  • Description: 3rd city hall of Boston, Massachusetts from 1865 to 1969, now a private office building
  • Also known as: “Boston City Hall”
  • Address: 45 School Street, Boston, MA 02108

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kings Chapel and Kings Chapel Burying Ground.

Church
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King's Chapel is an American independent Christian unitarian congregation affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association that is "unitarian Christian in theology, Anglican in worship, and congregational in governance." It is housed in what was for…

Cemetery
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King's Chapel Burying Ground is a historic graveyard on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts, near its intersection with School Street, established in 1630.

Museum
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The , also known as the Old Provincial State House, is a historic building in , . Built in 1713, replacing the city's First Town House, it was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798. is situated 550 feet northeast of Old City Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boston and Adams Square.

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A city of history and tradition, offers a proud legacy of culture, education, and numerous sporting championships. The "shining city on a hill"s independent spirit has been displayed to the world ever since colonists were angry over a British tax on their beloved tea and dumped shiploads of it into the harbor in protest.

Locality
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was a square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Now demolished, it was formerly located on the site of the current in .

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Downtown is really the heart of the city. Boston City Hall is here, and many powerful companies and agencies are headquartered in the area. Since urban planning was done here before the advent of the automobile, this area of town has secured a decidedly European flavor.

Old City Hall

Latitude
42.35812° or 42° 21′ 29″ north
Longitude
-71.05932° or 71° 3′ 34″ west
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Levels
6
Open location code
87JC9W5R+67
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29605275
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Geo­Names ID
11819224
Wiki­data ID
Q7083686
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Uzbek—“Old City Hall” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “旧市政厅”
  • Chinese: “舊市政廳”
  • German: “Old City Hall”
  • Uzbek: “Eski shahar hokimiyati (Boston)”
  • Uzbek: “Eski shahar hokimiyati”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Old City Hall”. Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY 4.0.