The Frederick Douglass Square Historic District is a
historic district roughly bounded by Hammond Street, Cabot Street, Windsor Street, and Westminster Street, in the
Lower Roxbury area of
Boston, Massachusetts. It covers a that is a remarkably well-preserved and cohesive residential development created as the result of one of Boston's many land-reclamation projects in the 19th century. This area, originally salt marshes that flooded at high tide, was at first gradually filled in as the Boston Neck was widened with the construction of Tremont Street and railroad lines. The Tremont Improvement Company acquired a remnant portion of the salt marshes by the early 1860s, and built a series of single-family row houses on the land that resulted from filling it in. The district includes most of the residential properties on Warwick, Greenwich, and Sussex Streets, as well as clusters of properties on adjacent streets.
The district was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1996
and is a pending
Boston Landmark
A Boston Landmark is a designation by the Boston Landmarks Commission for historic buildings and sites throughout the city of Boston based on the grounds that it has historical, social, cultural, architectural or aesthetic significance to New Engla ...
. The nearby intersection of Tremont and Hammond streets was dedicated as Frederick Douglass Square in 1917, giving the district its name.
See also
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References
Historic districts in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Roxbury, Boston
National Register of Historic Places in Boston
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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