Milk Street

Milk St., Boston, 19th century

Franklin's Birthplace site directly across from Old South Meeting House on Milk Street is commemorated by a bust above the second floor facade of this building

Milk Street is a street in the financial district of Boston, Massachusetts.

Milk Street was one of Boston's earliest highways.^[1] The name "Milk Street" was probably given to the street in 1708 due to a milk market at the location, although Grace Croft's 1952 work "History and Genealogy of Milk Family" instead proposes that Milk Street may have been named for John Milk, an early shipwright in Boston. The land was originally conveyed to his father, also John Milk, in October 1666.

One of the first post offices in Boston was located on the street in 1711, when the first regular postal routes to Maine, Plymouth and New York were established.^[1]^[2]

Buildings on Milk Street

Old South Meeting House at the corner of Milk and Washington where Milk Street begins
Central Wharf and its warehouses, and the New England Aquarium, at the waterfront end of Milk Street
Flour and Grain Exchange Building at Milk and India streets
The King Building at 120 Milk Street, built 1894 as a bank and now an apartment building^[3]
International Trust Company Building, built 1892-93, at 39-47 Milk Street
The John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse occupies a block bounded on one side by Milk Street, which also defines one side of Post Office Square and the block occupied by the One Post Office Square skyscraper

Historical places and former residents

Benjamin Franklin's birthplace site is located on Milk Street.^[1]
Boston's historical Newspaper Row district includes 5-23 Milk Street. The now-defunct Boston Post newspaper was headquartered at 15–17 Milk Street.
The United States Post Office and Sub-Treasury Building, demolished 1929, now the site of the John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse
Julien's Restorator, a pioneering late 18th and early 19th century restaurant, was at Milk Street and Congress Street. Julien Hall (now demolished) was built on the site in 1825.
J.L. Cunningham, auctioneer, worked in Corinthian Hall at Milk Street and Federal Street, 1826–1843
Benjamin Dearborn, inventor, lived on Milk Street^[4]
Abram French ran a crockery business on Milk Street in the 19th century
David Claypoole Johnston, artist, kept a studio on Milk St. in the 19th century
Nineteenth-century engraver Ephraim W. Bouvé's studio was on Milk Street
Instrument maker Thomas Appleton (1785–1872), who partnered with Alpheus Babcock, had his workshops at 6 Milk Street, and a successor company, the Franklin Music Warehouse, was also on Milk Street

Subway connection

The closest subway stop to Milk Street is State Street.

References

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1 2 3 "The New England Magazine" v. 12, Making of America Project (New England Magazine Co., 1895)(accessed July 4, 2009)
↑ Samuel Adams Drake, Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (Roberts brothers, 1876)(accessed July 6, 2009 on Google Book Search)
↑ "120 Milk Street". AAA Corporate Rentals. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
↑ Massachusetts Mercury, January 13, 1797

Images

1723 map of Boston, showing Milk St. and vicinity
Apothecary, Milk St., c. 1825
Overview photo by J.W. Black, showing Milk Street and vicinity, 1860

Streets and squares in Boston
Streets	Arborway Atlantic Avenue Beacon Street Bennington Street Blue Hills Parkway Bowdoin Street Boylston Street Brattle Street Brookline Avenue Charles Street Columbus Avenue Commonwealth Avenue Congress Street Court Street Day Boulevard Dorchester Avenue Federal Street Fenway Franklin Street Gallivan Boulevard Hanover Street Huntington Avenue Jamaicaway Massachusetts Avenue Melnea Cass Boulevard Memorial Drive Milk Street Morrissey Boulevard Morton Street Neptune Road New Chardon Street Newbury Street North Street Park Street Park Drive Riverway School Street Soldiers Field Road State Street Stony Brook Reservation Parkways Storrow Drive Summer Street Tremont Street Truman Parkway Union Street Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway Washington Street West Roxbury Parkway Winter Street Yawkey Way/David Ortiz Drive
Squares, circles, crossings and corners	Adams Square Andrew Square Blackstone Square Brigham Circle Central Square Chester Square City Square Cleveland Circle Codman Square Copley Square Day Square Dewey Square Dock Square Downtown Crossing Dudley Square Egleston Square Fields Corner Franklin Square Haymarket Square Hyde Square Jackson Square Kenmore Square Louisburg Square Maverick Square Packard's Corner Park Square Peabody Square Post Office Square Roxbury Crossing Scollay Square Sullivan Square Teele Square Thompson Square Union Square Uphams Corner
Italics denote streets and squares that no longer exist. See also Neighborhoods in Boston Transportation in Boston

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