One Financial Center is a modern skyscraper adjacent to

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in the

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of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1983 by Rose Associates, it is Boston's 9th-tallest building, standing tall, and housing 46 floors. An unusual tall glass-roofed lobby, known as the

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, occupies the first two stories. The remaining stories are offices, home to a number of

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, Certified Public Accountants, and financial services companies. The building is located on a historic triangular piece of land next to

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and the Federal Reserve Bank Building, joining the

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area with Boston's Financial District. During the

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(a project to create a new underground highway under the centre of Boston), extra care was needed to avoid subsidence of the soil under the building, as construction was underway just from the building's foundation. The building was constructed on soil rather than bedrock due to the geography of the site. The tower is topped off by two

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. Including its radio masts, One Financial Center is the 4th-tallest building in Boston (when measuring by pinnacle height), rising . Apart from the masts and their supporting cables, the roof of the building is flat with no crown.

Tenants

* Citizens Bank * HarbourVest Partners * Loomis, Sayles & Company *

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