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History

Hanover Street, Haymarket, and Boston Public Market

The street is one of the oldest in Boston, and was originally a Native American path, allowing access to the shore, prior to the first European settlement. In the 17th century, the street was called Orange Tree Lane. In 1708, the street was renamed after the British

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, heirs to the throne under the

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. In 1824, North Street and the former Middle Street became part of Hanover. In the 1950s, the block of Hanover Street between Cross Street and Blackstone Street was demolished to make way for the construction of the

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. This block was reopened in 2004 when the elevated Central Artery was removed as part of the

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and replaced by the

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. In the 1960s the southern section of Hanover street, from Congress Street to Court Street (now Cambridge Street), was demolished to make way for the construction of Government Center. Hanover Street is now home to many businesses, cafes, churches, and

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restaurants. The portion of the street between the

and Union Street is closed on Friday and Saturday each week for the Haymarket open-air market.

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Image:1769 NorthEnd Boston map WilliamPrice.png, Detail of 1769 map of Boston, showing Hanover St. and North End Image:Boston, 1775bsmall1.png, Map showing a British tactical evaluation of Boston in 1775. It shows a street called "Hanover Street" and "Middle Street". Map by Lieut.

Thomas Hyde Page Sir Thomas Hyde Page, FRS (1746–1821) was a decorated British military engineer and cartographer for the British crown. In 1777 he married Susanna, widow of Edmund Bastard of Kitley, Devon, and sister of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, baronet. ...

Image:WarrenHouse HanoverSt Boston.png, House of General

Joseph Warren Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775), a Founding Father of the United States, was an American physician who was one of the most important figures in the Patriot movement in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution, ...

, Hanover St., 18th century Image:DriggsLace Boston 1850s.jpg, L.S. Drigg's Lace and Bonnet store, Hanover St., 1850s (illustration from Gleason's Pictorial) Image:AmericanHouse Boston.jpg, American House, Hanover St., 1850s (illustration from Gleason's Pictorial) Image:2351554680 HanoverSt Boston.jpg, The Gem 99 Cent Store, c. 1860s-1870s Image:1868 Southworth Photographer BostonDirectory.png, Advertisement for

Albert Southworth Albert Southworth, circa 1848 Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) operated Southworth & Hawes daguerreotype studio with Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) from 1843 to 1863. Biography Southworth was a student of Samuel F.B. Morse, who, in ad ...

, photographer, 1868 Image:2351620356 HanoverSt and CourtSt.jpg, Hanover St., from Court St., 19th century Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 137-047635, USA, Boston, Hannoverstrasse.jpg, Corner of Hanover and Union Streets, Boston, 1930 File:Boston City Hall, from Haymarket (8609103149).jpg, View west on Hanover Street from the

showing Haymarket, 1975

External links

Bostonian Society
has materials related to the street. * City of Boston Archives
Hanover Street looking from Richmond Street to Prince Street
November 11, 1948
Library of Congress
Waldron's Casino Theatre, Hanover St. near Scollay Square, Boston, Massachusetts, 1922.
Library of Congress
Historic American Buildings Survey. Codman Building, 30-48 Hanover Street. {{coord, 42, 21, 50.85, N, 71, 03, 14.14, W, display=title Streets in Boston Former buildings and structures in Boston History of Boston North End, Boston Government Center, Boston

History

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