Adams Building
The Adams Building is a historic commercial building at 1342–1368 Hancock Street in downtown Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in stages between 1880 and 1890, it is a distinctive example of Jacobethan architecture, and is one of city's oldest commercial buildings.Photo: Jameslwoodward, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Commercial building
- Description: commercial building in Quincy, Massachusetts
- Address: 1342, 1348, 1352, 1354, 1358, 1360, 1368, and 1370 Hancock Street
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include United First Parish Church and Thomas Crane Public Library.
United First Parish Church
Place of worship
Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
United First Parish Church is an American Unitarian Universalist congregation in Quincy, Massachusetts, established as the parish church of Quincy in 1639.
Thomas Crane Public Library
Library
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The Thomas Crane Public Library is a city library in Quincy, Massachusetts. Noted for its Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, the building was funded by the Crane family as a memorial to Thomas Crane, a wealthy stone contractor who got his start in the Quincy quarries. Thomas Crane Public Library is situated 580 feet northeast of Adams Building.
Hancock Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Sswonk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hancock Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the Hancock Adams Common, across from the United First Parish Church, in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. Hancock Cemetery is situated 350 feet west of Adams Building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quincy and Adams Shore.
Quincy
Photo: Sswonk, Public domain.
Quincy is in Massachusetts. Quincy was the birthplace of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. United States Declaration of Independence signer and first Massachusetts governor John Hancock was also born here.
Adams Shore
Hamlet
Adams Shore is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is located on the shore of Quincy Bay at the entrance to the Hough's Neck peninsula. It is bordered on the north by Quincy Bay, on the east by the Hough's Neck neighborhood, on the south by Town River Bay and on the west by the Merrymount neighborhood.
Braintree Split
Locality
The Braintree Split is the major interchange of Interstate 93, U.S. Route 1, and Route 3 in Braintree, Massachusetts, one of the South Shore suburbs of Boston. Braintree Split is situated 2 miles southwest of Adams Building.
Adams Building
- Categories: building and office
- Location: City of Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.25061° or 42° 15′ 2″ northLongitude
-71.00252° or 71° 0′ 9″ westOpen location code
87JC7X2W+6XOpenStreetMap ID
way 29958122OpenStreetMap feature
building=commercialWikidata ID
Q4680299
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