Sears' Crescent And Sears' Block
Sears' Crescent and Sears' Block are a pair of adjacent historic buildings located along Cornhill, Boston, Cornhill in Boston, Massachusetts. It is adjacent to Boston City Hall, City Hall and City Hall Plaza (Boston), City Hall Plaza, Government Center, Boston. Sears' Crescent was constructed in 1816 as a series of Federal period commercial rowhouses. Around 1860 these were given a unified curving facade with Italianate styling. The Sears' Block, built in 1848, is a rare surviving instance of granite post-and-lintel construction. Both buildings were developed by David Sears (America), David Sears, a leading mid-19th-century developer of Boston who was responsible for the filling of Back Bay, Boston, Back Bay. They are the only buildings that remain on the original route of Cornhill, Boston, Cornhill, one of Boston's oldest streets, most of whose route has been lost or obscured by urban renewal. The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The Se ...
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