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Columbus Avenue (est.1860) in
Boston,
Massachusetts, runs from
Park Square to just south of
Melnea Cass Boulevard
Melnea Cass Boulevard is a street in Boston, Massachusetts, running perpendicular to the line between Dudley Square in Roxbury and the South End. It is named after local community and civil rights activist Melnea Cass. The road's right-of-way ...
, 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 Roxbury may refer to:
Places
;Canada
* Roxbury, Nova Scotia
* Roxbury, Prince Edward Island
;United States
* Roxbury, Connecticut
* Roxbury, Kansas
* Roxbury, Maine
* Roxbury, Boston, a municipality that was later integrated into the city of Bosto ...
neighborhoods.
Buildings & tenants
* African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
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Armory of the First Corps of Cadets
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Doris Bunte
Doris Bunte (July 2, 1933 – February 15, 2021) was a Massachusetts state representative and an administrator of the Boston Housing Authority. She was the first African-American woman to hold either position.
Biography
She was born on July 2, ...
Apartments
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Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe
Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe is a restaurant located in Boston's South End that is known for serving African-American jazz musicians during the era of segregated hotels.
The walls of the diner are adorned with pictures of customers ranging from Sa ...
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Home for Aged Couples
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Northeastern University
Northeastern University (NU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in ...
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Roxbury Community College
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Youth's Companion Building
;Former buildings & tenants
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Allan Crite
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Boston Flower Exchange
* Hotel Statler, Columbus Avenue and Arlington Street
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Massachusetts Metaphysical College
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Pope Manufacturing Company, 1890s
* Savoy Cafe
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South End Grounds
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Temple Israel (Boston)
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Vega Company
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Waitt & Bond 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 Societyhas materials related to the street.
* Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress).
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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."
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Edison-Spencer-Grafton Block, 254-264 Columbus Avenue, Boston
* New York Public Library
Itemrelated to Columbus Ave., Boston
* Boston College.
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Hotel Statler, Columbus Avenue and Arlington Streetphoto, 1926
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Intersection of Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue photo c. 1933
* City of Boston Archives
Photoof 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
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Streets in Boston
South End, Boston
Roxbury, Boston