__NOTOC__ Columbus Avenue (est.1860) in

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, runs from Park Square to just south of Melnea Cass Boulevard, as well as from Tremont Street to Walnut Avenue and Seaver Street, where it continues as Seaver Street to Blue Hill Avenue and to Erie Street, where it ends. It intersects the South End and Roxbury neighborhoods.

Buildings & tenants

* African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church *

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* Doris Bunte Apartments * Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe * Home for Aged Couples * Northeastern University *

Roxbury Community College Roxbury Community College (RCC) is a public community college in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. RCC offers associate degrees in arts, and sciences, as well as certificates. RCC has transfer agreements with Curry College, North ...

Youth's Companion Building The Youth's Companion Building is a historic building at 209 Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. The building is also known as the Pledge of Allegiance Building because the Pledge of Allegiance was written and published there. The building ...

;Former buildings & tenants *

Allan Crite Allan Rohan Crite (March 20, 1910 – September 6, 2007) was a Boston-based African American artist. He won several honors, such as the 350th Harvard University Anniversary Medal. Biography Crite was born in North Plainfield, New Jersey, ...

Boston Flower Exchange The Boston Flower Exchange is a wholesale flower market located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded as a marketplace that local growers could rent cooperatively to sell their products in a space more suited to their needs than Boston's historic Ha ...

* Hotel Statler, Columbus Avenue and Arlington Street *

Massachusetts Metaphysical College The Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded in 1881 by Mary Baker Eddy in Boston, Massachusetts, to teach her school of Christian Science metaphysical healing that she named Christian Science. Eddy records in the preface of '' Science and He ...

Pope Manufacturing Company Pope Manufacturing Company was founded by Albert Augustus Pope around 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, US and incorporated in Hartford, Connecticut in 1877. Manufacturing of bicycles began in 1878 in Hartford at the Weed Sewing Machine Company fact ...

, 1890s * Savoy Cafe *

South End Grounds South End Grounds refers to any one of three baseball parks on one site in Boston, Massachusetts. They were home to the franchise that eventually became known as the Boston Braves, first in the National Association and later in the National Lea ...

Temple Israel (Boston) Temple Israel is a Reform synagogue in the American city of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1854 as Adath Israel, the congregation is the largest Reform synagogue in Boston and New England. History * 1854: The congregation Temple Israel, ...

Vega Company The Vega Company was a musical instrument manufacturer that started operations in Boston, Massachusetts in 1881. The company began under Swedish-born Julius Nelson, his brother Carl, and a group of associates that included John Pahn and John Sw ...

Waitt & Bond Waitt & Bond, Inc. was an American cigar manufacturer that was in operation from 1870 to 1969. During the early 20th century it was the largest cigar manufacturer in New England and one of the largest in the United States. Early years Waitt & Bo ...

Factory (Later owned by Alles & Fisher, now part of Northeastern University)

Images

File:1883 ColumbusAve Walker map Boston.png, Map of Columbus Ave. and vicinity, 1883 File:Boston and Providence R.R. Station, exterior, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg, Boston and Providence R.R. Station, Park Square, late 19th century File:1902 Boston BeachClarridgeCo byGeorgeWalker.png, Bird's-eye view of Columbus Ave. and vicinity, 1902 File:2350705370 ThirdBase Boston.jpg, McGreevey's Third Base Saloon, no.940 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury Crossing, 1914 (Boston Public Library) Image:2009 ColumbusAve Boston Massachusetts 4074463202.jpg, Columbus Avenue, 2009 File:Walnut Park Apartments, November 2020.jpg, Doris Bunte Apartments, 2020

References

External links

Bostonian Society
has materials related to the street. * Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress). *
Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston
"This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners designed a number of buildings in Boston and New England in the late 19th century." *
Edison-Spencer-Grafton Block, 254-264 Columbus Avenue, Boston
* New York Public Library
Item
related to Columbus Ave., Boston * Boston College. *
Hotel Statler, Columbus Avenue and Arlington Street
photo, 1926 *
Intersection of Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue
photo c. 1933 * City of Boston Archives
Photo
of Columbus Avenue divisional strip project, June 2, 1948
Columbus Avenue looking north east toward Concord Square, Columbus Ave. Anniversary of Battle of Bunker Hill, 1875.
Photo by J.W. Black * MIT
Photo
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