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Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
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, is located in the
Financial District A financial district is usually a central area in a city where financial services firms such as banks, insurance companies and other related finance corporations have their head offices. In major cities, financial districts are often home to s ...
and
South Boston South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. South Boston, colloquially known as Southie, has undergone several demographic transformat ...
. It was first named in 1800. It was extended in 1854 (from State Street) as far as Atlantic Avenue, and in 1874 across
Fort Point Channel Fort Point Channel is a maritime channel separating South Boston from downtown Boston, Massachusetts, feeding into Boston Harbor. The south part of it has been gradually filled in for use by the South Bay rail yard and several highways (specif ...
into South Boston. Today's Congress Street consists of several segments of streets, previously named Atkinson's Street, Dalton Street, Gray's Alley, Leverett's Lane, Quaker Lane, and Shrimpton's Lane.


See also

* Boston Children's Museum *
Boston City Hall Boston City Hall is the seat of city government of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the offices of the mayor of Boston and the Boston City Council. The current hall was built in 1968 to assume the functions of the Old City Hall. It is a con ...
*
The Boston Post ''The Boston Post'' was a daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before it folded in 1956. The ''Post'' was founded in November 1831 by two prominent Boston businessmen, Charles G. Greene and William Beals. Edwin Grozier bough ...
* Boston Reds (1890–1891) * Children's Wharf * Congress Street Fire Station *
Congress Street Grounds Congress Street Grounds is a former baseball ground located in Boston, Massachusetts. The ballpark, as the name implies, was along Congress Street, near the intersection of Thompson Place, and not far from the Fort Point Channel on South Bost ...
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Dock Square (Boston, Massachusetts) Dock Square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, is a public square adjacent to Faneuil Hall, bounded by Congress Street, North Street, and the steps of the 60 State Street office tower. Its name derives from its original (17th-century) location ...
* Exchange Coffee House, Boston *
Government Center, Boston Government Center is an area in downtown Boston, centered on City Hall Plaza. Formerly the site of Scollay Square, it is now the location of Boston City Hall, courthouses, state and federal office buildings, and a major MBTA subway station, als ...
* John Hancock Building * Julien Hall (19th century) * Mobius Artists Group *
New England Holocaust Memorial The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, is dedicated to the Jewish people who were murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Description Founded by Stephan Ross, a Holocaust survivor, and erected in 1995, the memorial ...
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Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts Post Office Square (est. 1874) in Boston, Massachusetts is a square located in the financial district at the intersection of Milk, Congress, Pearl and Water Streets. It was named in 1874 after the United States Post Office and Sub-Treasury which ...
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Russia Wharf Buildings The Russia Wharf Buildings are a cluster of three stylistically similar commercial buildings at 518-540 Atlantic Avenue, 270 Congress Street and 276-290 Congress Street in Boston, Massachusetts. They are built on the original site of Russia Wharf ...
* '' Weekly Messenger'' newspaper *
World Trade Center (MBTA station) World Trade Center is an underground bus rapid transit station on the MBTA's Silver Line, located south of Congress Street on the South Boston Waterfront. The station is situated between the World Trade Center and the Boston Convention and E ...


Images

File:JuliensRestorator MilkSt Snow HistoryOfBoston 1828.png, Julien's Restorator, corner of Milk Street and Congress St. (demolished 1824) File:TimothyDalton house CongressSt WaterSt Boston.png, Dalton house, corner of Congress St. and Water St., Boston, c. 19th century File:Financial Boston1829 Stimpson.png, Detail of 1829 map of Boston, showing extent of Congress St.; (Atkinson St. would become part of Congress St. in 1854) File:1831 Liberator.jpg, Issue No.1, '' The Liberator'', 1831; published from Office #11, Merchants Hall, on Water Street at the corner of Congress Street, Boston File:Welch CongressSt BostonDirectory 1852.png, Advertisement for Welch & Griffiths, cast-steel saws, 1852 File:WilliamBond CongressSt BostonDirectory 1861.png, Advertisement for William Bond & Son, chronometer and watch makers, 1861 File:View on Congress Street, by Kilburn Brothers.jpg, Congress St. after the fire of 1872 File:Congress Street, from Milk, by Soule, John P., 1827-1904 2.jpg, Congress St. (looking from Milk St.), after the fire, 1872; photo by John P. Soule File:1883 CongressSt Walker map Boston detail.png, Detail of 1883 map of Boston, showing Congress St. and vicinity File:StockExchange CongressSt 1910s Boston.jpg, Stock Exchange, Congress St., Boston, 1910s File:Federal Reserve from South Boston.jpg, Congress Street Bridge (at far right), 2007 File:2010 CongressSt Boston7.jpg, Congress St., Boston, looking towards Merrimac St., 2010


References


External links


Bostonian Society
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