Sears' Crescent and Sears' Block

Sears' Crescent and Sears' Block
Sears Crescent (5-story red brick, on left) and Sears Block (4-story gray granite, on right)
Location Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°21′34″N 71°3′34″W / 42.35944°N 71.05944°W / 42.35944; -71.05944Coordinates: 42°21′34″N 71°3′34″W / 42.35944°N 71.05944°W / 42.35944; -71.05944
Built 1816
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Italianate, Other, Federal
NRHP Reference #

86001486

[1]
Added to NRHP August 9, 1986

Sears' Crescent and Sears' Block are a pair of adjacent historic buildings at 38-68 and 70-72 Cornhill in Boston, Massachusetts. It is adjacent to City Hall and City Hall Plaza, Government Center, Boston.

Sears' Crescent was constructed in 1816 as a series of Federal period commercial rowhouses. Around 1860 these were given a unified curving facade with Italianate styling. The Sears Block, built in 1848, is a rare surviving instance of granite post-and-lintel construction. Both buildings were developed by David Sears, a leading mid-19th-century developer of Boston who was responsible for the filling of Back Bay. They are the only buildings that remain on the original route of Cornhill Street, one of Boston's oldest streets, most of whose route has been lost or obscured by urban renewal.[2]

The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Sears' Crescent and Sears' Block". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-09-05.

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