Park Square in

downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...

Boston, Massachusetts is bounded by Stuart, Charles Street South,

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, and Arlington Streets. It is the home of the Boston Four Seasons Hotel, the

Boston Park Plaza The Boston Park Plaza is a historic hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, opened on March 10, 1927. It was built by hotelier E.M. Statler as part of his Statler Hotels chain. A prototype of the grand American hotel, it was called a "c ...

, and nearly a dozen restaurants. To the north across Boylston Street is the

Boston Public Garden The Public Garden, also known as Boston Public Garden, is a large park in the Downtown Boston, heart of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston Common. It is a part of the Emerald Necklace system of parks, and is bounded by Charles Street (Bosto ...

. To the east is the

Washington Street Theatre District The Boston Theater District is the center of Boston's theater scene. Many of its theaters are on Washington Street, Tremont Street, Boylston Street, and Huntington Avenue. History Plays were banned in Boston by the Puritans until 1792. Bost ...

. The Bay Village neighborhood is to the south, and

Back Bay Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin. Construction began in 1859, as the demand for luxury housing exceeded the availability in the city at the time, and t ...

is to the west. At one time, the terminus of the

Boston and Providence The Boston and Providence Railroad was a railroad company in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which connected its namesake cities. It opened in two sections in 1834 and 1835 - one of the first rail lines in the United States - with a ...

Railroad was in the square; however, after

South Station South Station, officially The Governor Michael S. Dukakis Transportation Center at South Station, is the largest railroad station and intercity bus terminal in Greater Boston and New England's second-largest transportation center after Logan In ...

opened, the terminal was closed. A

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commemorating US

emancipation Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchis ...

of slaves was installed in Park Square in 1879 and removed in December 2020. From 1964 to 1974, the

University of Massachusetts Boston The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a Public university, public research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus Un ...

campus was located in Park Square. A small street in the district was renamed "Park

Plaice Plaice is a common name for a group of flatfish that comprises four species: the European, American, Alaskan and scale-eye plaice. Commercially, the most important plaice is the European. The principal commercial flatfish in Europe, it is al ...

" in honor of

Legal Sea Foods Legal Sea Foods is an American restaurant chain of casual-dining seafood restaurants mostly located in the Northeastern region of the United States. The current company headquarters is located in the South Boston Seaport District and as of 202 ...

, a local restaurant.

Education

Boston Public Schools Boston Public Schools (BPS) is a school district serving the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest public school district in the state of Massachusetts. Leadership The district is led by a Superintendent, hired by the ...

operates area district public schools.

Boston Renaissance Charter Public School Boston Renaissance Charter Public School (BRCPS), formerly Boston Renaissance Charter School (BRCS), is a charter elementary school in Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the oldest charter schools in Boston, and as of 2012 BRCPS was al ...

was formerly located in a building in Park Square. In 2010 it moved to its current location in

Hyde Park Hyde Park may refer to: Places England * Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London * Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds * Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield * Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester Austra ...

.New - About
." Boston Renaissance Charter Public School. Retrieved on April 20, 2017.

Image gallery

File:1837 ParkSquare Boston LOC030074v.jpg, Railroad depot at Park Square in 1837, with the State House in the background, the tidal Charles River basin in the foreground Image:1850 ParkSquare BirdsEyeView Boston byJohnBachmann.png, Overview of Park Square, 1850 Image:Park square, by John B. Heywood.jpg,

Stereoscopic Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the depth perception, illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision. The word ''stereoscopy'' derives . Any stere ...

view of Park Square and train station, from Boston Common, 19th century Lincoln Statue, Park Square, Boston, Mass (NYPL b12647398-69513).tiff,

Emancipation Memorial The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before the mor ...

, installed in 1879 Image:Waiting room of the Boston and Providence Railroad terminal, circa 1875.jpg, Interior of Boston & Providence Rail Road depot, 19th century File:1902 ColoredAmericanMagazine office ParkSq Bosto interior 1 (cropped).jpg, Office of the ''

Colored American Magazine ''The Colored American Magazine'' was the first monthly publication in the United States that covered African-American culture. It ran from May 1900 to November 1909 and had a peak circulation of 17,000. The magazine was initially published out o ...

'', 1902 Image:ClarenceBlackall theatre6 Boston AmericanArchitect March1915.png, Cort Theatre, Park Square, c. 1915 File:Boston Park Plaza Hotel.jpg,

and the former headquarters of the Boston Gas Company, 2009

References

External links

Google news archive
Articles about Park Square.
The Evolution of Park Square

Picture: "Pre-war New England Greyhound PDG-3701 backed in the old Park Square Greyhound Terminal in Boston."

Picture: "A shot of an Almeida Aerocoach loading at their terminal just a few doors away."

Picture: "The picture of the MacKenzie Line Beck loading shows the Greyhound Terminal off to the right."
Squares in Boston Boston Theater District Back Bay, Boston {{Boston-geo-stub

Education

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References

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