New Chardon Street is a street in downtown
Boston
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, Massachusetts, United States, north of
Government Center. It begins at
Cambridge Street at
Bowdoin Square
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, across from
Bowdoin Street
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. The two-way street continues east across
Congress Street, ending at
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with access to the
Sumner and
Callahan Tunnels (
Route 1A) and the
Central Artery
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(
I-93
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/
U.S. 1/
Route 3), as well as local access to
Washington Street North and the
Surface Artery
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.
History
New Chardon Street was originally Chardon Street, connecting Bowdoin Square to
Merrimac and
Portland Street
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Geography
Running north-south and parallel to (an ...
s (where
Congress Street now intersects). The street was originally "laid out through the Parker-Gerrish pasture in 1682. It was called "the highway to Jackson's distill house," "the lane to the mill pond," and in 1785, "Chardon's lane."
Chardon Street was named after a
Huguenot
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descendant, Peter Chardon, who acquired the property on the street in 1733
[ and "built a house on the corner of the street bearing his name. He was a man of polished manners, and an influential merchant of the old time. A school-house was erected in 1804, at the corner of Chardon and Hawkins Streets."] Hawkins Street was also the site of many distilling
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houses.[
In the nineteenth century, Chardon street was home to Chardon Street Chapel (1838), a large church founded by Joshua V. Himes, an early leader of the ]Advent Christian Church
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.
The full length of the street had streetcar
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tracks added between 1872 and 1874; they were gone by 1925.
The street stayed in the same configuration until the 1960s, when Government Center was built and the streets in the area were reconfigured. Chardon Street was realigned and renamed New Chardon Street, made one-way westbound, and extended east to Washington Street North and the Central Artery
The Central Artery (officially the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway) is a section of freeway in downtown Boston, Massachusetts; it is designated as Interstate 93, US 1 and Route 3.
The original Artery, constructed in the 1950s, was named aft ...
as a continuation of Cross Street
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.
As part of the Big Dig
The Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T Project), commonly known as the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery of Interstate 93 (I-93), the chief highway through the heart of the city, into the 1.5-mile (2.4&n ...
in the early 2000s, the road was made two-way, along with easier access to the Sumner and Callahan Tunnels at its east end provided by new ramps.
See also
* Boston Housing Court
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* Bowdoin Square (Boston)
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* Government Service Center (Boston)
References
*Various Sanborn maps
The Boston Atlas
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Streets in Boston
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