Union Street is a street in
Government Center,
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 ...
,
Massachusetts
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, near
Faneuil Hall
Faneuil Hall ( or ; previously ) is a marketplace and meeting hall located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in 1742, it was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others ...
. Prior to 1828, it was also called Green Dragon Lane.
[For sale - an estate on Hanover Street and Green Dragon lane, making the corner. Boston Daily Advertiser; Date: 02-10-1816.]
Image gallery
Image:1773 GreenDragonTavern Boston.jpg, Green Dragon Tavern, watercolor, 1773
Image:MatchDepot UnionSt BostonDirectory 1850.png, Byam, Bruce & Co's. Match Depot, 1850
Image:Homer UnionSt BostonDirectory 1852.png, William F. Homer, china, glass, crockery &c., 1852
Image:UnionSt ca1870s BostonianSociety.png, c. 1870s
Image:UnionSt ca1905 HanoverSt BostonianSociety.png, Corner of Union and Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
Streets, c. 1905
Image:2589477579 CapenHouse Boston.jpg, Capen House, 1930
See also
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First Baptist Church (Boston, Massachusetts)
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James Franklin (printer)
James Franklin (February 4, 1697 in Boston – February 4, 1735 in Newport, Rhode Island) was an early American printer, publisher and author of newspapers and almanacs in the American colonies. James published the ''New England Courant'', on ...
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Green Dragon Tavern
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The Green Dragon Tavern was a public house located on Union Street (then known as Green Dragon Lane) in Boston's North End. A popular meeting place for both the Freemasons and the Sons of Liberty, it was demolished in 1832.
History
The proper ...
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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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Union Oyster House, i.e. Thomas Capen house
References
External links
* https://www.flickr.com/photos/mit-libraries/3402036978/ 1957
* https://www.flickr.com/photos/alakazoo/2311031679/ 2008
* https://www.flickr.com/photos/51035558262@N01/2315411695 2008
Streets in Boston
History of Boston
Government Center, Boston
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