State Street Bank Building, also known as 225 Franklin Street, is a
high-rise office building located in the
Financial District
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,
Boston
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,
. The building stands at with 33 floors and was completed in 1966. It is tied with
33 Arch Street
33 Arch Street is a contemporary highrise in the Financial District and Downtown Crossing neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. The building was completed in 2004 after three years of construction, which began on June 5, 2001. It is tied with t ...
as the
20th-tallest building in Boston. The architectural firm who designed the building was
F.A. Stahl & Associates. State Street Bank Building was one of the first skyscrapers to be built in Boston after the completion of the
Prudential Tower
The Prudential Tower, also known as the Prudential Building or, colloquially, The Pru,subscription required'The Pru' everyone calls it: a resigned shrug of a name, as flat and uninflected as the wan moue its pronunciation requires." is an Inter ...
in 1964. The building gained its name from the prominent "State Street Bank" lettering present at the top of the building for many years, although the sign has since been taken down. A similar "State Street" sign was subsequently placed at
One Lincoln Street.
In 2009,
Fish & Richardson
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agreed to lease space in One Marina Park in South Boston as its new headquarters and abandon its current headquarters at the State Street Bank Building. It will move beginning in the third quarter of 2010.
[Hillman, Michelle.]
Fish & Richardson inks new Boston lease
" ''Boston Business Journal
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The newspaper was founded by Robert Bergenheim and launched its first issue on ...
''. Monday September 21, 2009. Retrieved on November 11, 2009.
See also
*
List of tallest buildings in Boston
Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the largest city in New England, is home to 451 completed high-rises, 37 of which stand taller than . The majority of the city's skyscrapers and high-rises are clustered in the F ...
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Skyscraper office buildings in Boston
Bank buildings in Boston
Office buildings completed in 1966
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