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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This guide will help you get the most from walks, using maps, photographs, and
your visit to Boston, providing expert detailed illustrations. The sights are arranged
recommendations and detailed practical in two groups: those in Boston’s central
information. The opening section, Introducing districts, and those a little farther afield.
Boston, maps the city and sets it in its Tips for hotels, restaurants, shopping,
geographical, historical, and cultural context. entertainment, and sports can be found
Boston at a Glance is an overview of the city’s in Travelers’ Needs, while the final section,
main attractions. Section two, Boston Area by Survival Guide, contains practical advice on
Area, starts on page 40 and describes all the everything from public transportation
important sights plus three recommended and telephones to personal safety.

Boston Area by Area covers, describing its history and the area; for sights farther away,
Each of the six sightseeing areas character. For central districts, by a regional map. A simple
is color-coded for easy reference. this is followed by a Street- numbering system relates sights
Every chapter opens with an by-Street map illustrating a to the maps. Important sights
introduction to the area it particularly interesting part of are covered by several pages.

Introduction to the Area
BOST ON AREA B Y AREA  57
OLD BOSTON AND THE 1For easy reference, the sights are
FINANCIAL DISTRICT numbered and plotted on an
This is an area of Boston where old and new modernist-style City Hall and Government
sit one on top of the other. Some of its sights, Center, while to the east is the city’s bustling
situated in the older part of the district Financial District. This once formed part of area map, with “T” stations shown
closest to Boston Common, predate the Boston’s harbor waterfront, a district built
American Revolution (see pp22–3). Much of on mercantile wealth. Today, the wharves
what can be seen today, though, was built and warehouses have been replaced by where helpful. The key sights (historic
more recently. The north of the district skyscrapers belonging to banks, insurance
is home to Boston’s late 20th-century, companies, and high-tech industries. buildings, churches, museums, and
Sights at a Glance Restaurants pp143–4
Historic Streets and Squares 1 Anthem
0 Blackstone Block 2 Blue Ink open-air sights) are listed by category.
r Post Office Square 3 Boloco
Historic Buildings 4 Bond Restaurant and Lounge
and Churches 5 Chacarero
1 Omni Parker House 6 Durgin Park
7 Mooo...
2 King’s Chapel and Station North 8 Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse
Burying Ground
3 Old City Hall 9 Sakura-Bana
10 Sam LaGrassa’s
4 Old Corner C AUS EWAY S TR EE T 11 Silvertone
Bookstore
5 Old South Meeting LO WE LL STR EE T FRIEND STREET C A N A L 12 The Black Rose
House
13 The Kinsale
6 Old State ME STREET RR LANCASTER IMA C S T R E ET 14 The Oceanaire Seafood Room
TRAVERSE
House pp62–3
15 Union Oyster House
PORTLAND ST
7 Center Plaza STREET S T R E E T
8 Boston City Hall BL
9 Government Center S TANIF ORD ST R EET This shaded area
q Faneuil Hall BOWKER STREET
w Quincy Market Bowdoin HAWKINS NE W SU D B U RY S T Color-coded
e Custom House STREET
t Verizone Building PEMBERTON SQUARE OM ERSE T STREET UNION ST N O R T H S T R EET CLINTON ST is shown in greater thumb tabs
Haymarket ACKSTONE STREET
BOWDOIN S TR EE T CITY HALL PLAZA Government State CONGRESS ST R EE T S T A T E S T R E E T ATLANTIC AVENUE ATLANTIC AVE NUE detail on the Street- mark each area.
CHATHAM STREET
Center
by-Street map.
COURT STREET
C A MBR I DG E S T CAMBRIDGE STREET
BEAC ON ST S SCHOOL STREET WATER ST FINANCIAL I N D
DISTRICT
0 meters 300 BOSWORTH ST WASHINGTON ST REET MILK STREET I A S T
BROAD STREET
0 yards 300 BROMFIELD ST PEARL STREET OLIVER STREET ST
BATTERYMARCH ST
FRAN K LIN ST S T R E E T DEVONSHIRE ST F EDER AL S T RE ET FR AN KL IN HIGH STREET Locator map
A R C H OTIS ST ATL A NT IC AV E N U E
PEARL ST
CONGRE
ATL A NT I C
58  BOST ON AREA B Y AREA
See Street Finder maps 1 & 2 S U M M E R STR E E T HIGH S T REET SS STREET AV E N U E OLD BOST ON AND THE FINANCIAL DISTRIC T  59
Street-by-Street: Colonial Boston 6 . Old State House NORTH END
AND THE
The iconic Old State House in Boston’s Financial District For keys to symbols see back flap Once the seat of the OLD WATERFRONT
British colonial
An important part of Boston’s Freedom Trail (see gov ernment, the Old BOSTON
AND THE
pp126–9) runs through this historic core of the city, State House is now FINANCIAL
DISTRICT
the site of which predates American Independence. a museum nestling
Naturally, the area is now dominated by 19th- among the skyscrapers BEACON HILL AND
WEST END
of the district.
and 20th-century development, but glimpses of
a colonial past are prevalent here and there in the
Old State House, King’s Chapel and its adjacent Locator Map
burying ground, and the Old South Meeting House. See Street Finder maps 1 & 2
Newer buildings of interest include the Omni Irish Famine Memorial,
A locator map Parker House, as well as the towering skyscrapers Washington Street
of Boston’s financial district, located on the
shows where you are northwest edges of this area. Government Center
2 . King’s Chapel and
Burying Ground
in relation to other A church has stood here New England
since 1688, though the
current building dates Aquarium
areas of the city center. from 1749. The adjacent
cemetery is the resting
place of some of
the most important
figures in U.S. history.
W A S H I N G T O N S T R E E T 4 Old Corner Bookstore
Dating back to 1718, this
S C H O O L S T R E E T
building boasts a rich
literary heritage as a
P R O V I N C E S T R E E T publishing company.
famous literary gathering
place, a bookstore and a
1 Omni Parker House M I L K S T R E E T D E V O N S H I R E S T R E E T
Street-by-Street Map doors in 1855, then under went many
This hotel (see p135) first opened its
renovations. Famed for its opulence,
in the 19th century the hotel also A R C H S T R E E T 5 . Old South
gained a reputation as a meeting
Meeting House
2This gives a bird’s-eye view of place for Boston intellectuals. The Built in 1729, this church later
became a focal point for
current building was erected in 1927.
protest during the run-up to
the American Revolution.
interesting and important parts of reenactments of the debates
Today, visitors can hear
0 metres 50 that once raged here.
each sightseeing area, with accurate This building served 0 yards 50
3 Old City Hall
as Boston’s City Hall from 1865 Key Suggested route
to 1969. Today it is converted
drawings of all the buildings within into a steak house. Downtown Crossing
them. The numbering of the sights
ties in with the preceding area map
and with the fuller descriptions on
the pages that follow. Suggested
walking route
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