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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST 7 Park Street 9 Theater District
Map D3. Beacon Hill. Church Map C4.  Boylston, Tufts
Tel (617) 727-3676. Map D4. 1 Park St. Tel (617) 523-3383. Medical Center.
Open 10am–3:30pm Mon–Fri.  Park St. Open Jul–Aug: 9am–4pm
Booking advised. 7 8 Tue–Fri, 9am–3pm Sat; Sep–Jun: call Boston’s first theater opened
∑ sec.state.ma.us/trs in 1793 on Federal Street.
for hours. 7 ∑ parkstreet.org Fifty years later, with patron-
Transport age from the city’s elite,
 Park St.
Since its dedication in 1810, Boston had become a major
the Park Street Church has tryout town and boasted
been one of Boston’s most several lavish theaters. Many
influential pulpits. In 1829, major US premieres were
the firebrand crusader for the held here, among them
abolition of slavery, William Handel’s Messiah, and Tennessee
Lloyd Garrison, gave his first Williams’ A Streetcar Named
abolition speech here; and in Desire. Among the grandest
1893 the anthem “America the theaters are the opulent
Beautiful” debuted at Sunday Emerson Majestic Theater,
service in this church. The decorated with frescoes and
Senate Chamber
Situated directly beneath church, with its 217-ft (65-m) friezes; the 1,650-seat Shubert
the dome, this chamber steeple was designed by the Theater, with its imposing
features a beautiful English architect Peter Banner, Neo-Clas sical façade; and the
sunburst ceiling. who actually adapted a design Wang Theater, with a glittering
by the earlier English architect, seven-story auditorium.
Christopher Wren.
Adjacent to the church, on P Wang Theater
Tremont Street, is the mid- 230 Tremont St. Tel (617) 482-9393.
17th-century Old Granary Open phone to check. 7
Burying Ground, which was ∑ citicenter.org
once the site of a grain storage
facility. Among those buried in
this historic cemetery are three 0 Chinatown
important signatories to the Map D5. Bounded by Kingston,
Declaration of Independence – Kneeland, Washington, & Essex Sts.
Samuel Adams, John Hancock,  Chinatown.
and Robert Treat Paine – as
well as one of the city’s most This is the third largest
famous sons, Paul Revere. China town in the US, after
those in San Francisco and
Z Old Granary Burying New York. Pagoda-topped
Ground telephone booths set the
Tremont St. Open 9am–5pm daily. tone of the neighborhood,
which is full of restaurants,
and stores selling garments
8 Downtown and Chinese medicine. Boston’s
Crossing Chinese colony was fully
established by the turn of the
Map D4. Washington, Winter, & 19th cen tury, and the area’s
Summer Sts.  Downtown Crossing. population has since swelled
with new arrivals from Korea,
This pedestrian shopping district Vietnam, and Cambodia.
features sidewalk vendors and
food carts. The major depart-
ment store is Macy’s, part of a
nationwide chain. Farther
down Washington Street is
Boston’s jewelry district, while
Hall of Flags more unique shops can be
Flags carried into battle by found on the side streets.
regiments from the state of The Brattle Book Shop, for
Massachusetts are displayed example, was founded in
here beneath a stained-glass 1825 and stocks more than
skylight, depicting seals of the 250,000 rare, used, and out-of- Typical store and building façades in
original 13 colonies. print books and magazines. Boston’s Chinatown

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