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Tremont Street
Road in Boston Massachusetts
Road in Boston Massachusetts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Tremont Street |
| image | TremontSt Boston 1915.png |
| caption | Tremont Street and Park St. Church in 1915 |
| former_names | Treamont Street |
| namesake | Trimountaine |
| owner | City of Boston |
| location | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| metro | Government Center |
| Park Street | |
| Boylston | |
| Tufts Medical Center | |
| Roxbury Crossing | |
| Brigham Circle | |
| direction_a | North |
| terminus_a | Government Center, Boston |
| direction_b | South |
| terminus_b | Brigham Circle |
| inauguration_date | |
| website |
Park Street Boylston Tufts Medical Center Roxbury Crossing Brigham Circle Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts.
Tremont Street begins at Government Center in Boston's city center as a continuation of Cambridge Street, and forms the eastern edge of Boston Common. Continuing in a roughly southwesterly direction, it passes through Boston's Theater District, crosses the Massachusetts Turnpike, and becomes a broad boulevard in the South End neighborhood. It then turns to the west as a narrower four-lane street, running through Mission Hill and terminating at Brigham Circle, where it intersects Huntington Avenue. The street name zigzags across several physical roads, often requiring a sharp turn to remain on the street, as a result of changes made to the street grid during urban renewal.
Etymology
The name (, pronounced TREH-mont) is a variation of one of the original appellations of the city: "Trimountaine", a reference to a hill that formerly had three peaks. Beacon Hill, with its single peak, is all that remains of the Trimountain. Much of the Trimountain was removed, and the earth used as fill to expand the Shawmut Peninsula. The two smaller peaks, Cotton Hill (or Pemberton Hill, at what is now Pemberton Square) and Mt. Whoredom (or Mt. Vernon, formerly at the location of the modern-day Louisburg Square) no longer exist. The central peak, Sentry Hill, now called Beacon Hill, is smaller than the original peak, which reached approximately to the height of the top of the State House.
A British military map of Boston from 1775, prepared by a Lieut. Sir Thomas Hyde Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, shows Beacon Hill, Mount Whoredom, and another unnamed hill all just above Beacon Street. There is a small street on the northeast corner of Boston Common called "Treamount Street" from School Street to Hanover Street, the precursor of modern Tremont Street, running north from what was then called Common Street (modern Tremont Street alongside the eastern border of Boston Common).
Points of interest
Sites of interest along Tremont Street, from northeast to southwest, include:
- Government Center
- King's Chapel
- King's Chapel Burying Ground
- Tremont Temple
- Granary Burying Ground
- Suffolk University Law School
- Park Street Church
- Boston Common
- Emerson College
- Masonic Grand Lodge
- Boston Theater District
- Wang Center for the Performing Arts
- Boston Center for the Arts
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica
Transportation
The Tremont Street subway runs underneath the street. Opened in 1897, it was the first subway tunnel in North America and still carries the MBTA Green Line.
The Green Line stops in three places under Tremont Street:
- Government Center
- Park Street
- Boylston
Gallery
1722 ParkSt TremontSt BeaconSt Boston.png|Intersection of Tremont and School Street (Boston Common at upper left), 1722 Boston, 1775bsmall1.png|1775 map 1798 TremontSt Boston byARobertson SimonsUPNE.png|Tremont St., 1798 FaneuilMansion Boston byEdwinWhitefield 1889.png|Faneuil mansion, c. 19th century TremontSt ca1843 Boston byPhilipHarry MFABoston.png|Tremont St., c. 1843, by Philip Harry GleasonsHall 18oct1851.JPG|Gleason's Publishing Hall, corner of Tremont and Bromfield St., 1851 Brewster NaturalHistoryStore TremontSt BostonDirectory 1861.png|Advertisement for Chas. E. Brewster's Natural History Store, 1861 Horticultural and studio buildings, Tremont St., Boston, Mass, by Soule, John P., 1827-1904 4.jpg|Horticultural Hall, 19th century, photo by John P. Soule 1891 TremontSt Boston.png|Tremont St., 1891 Work on Section 5 of Tremont Street Subway, looking northerly, November 1896.jpg|Intersection of Tremont St., Pleasant St., and Shawmut Ave., 1896
References
Notes
Further reading
- Views of Tremont Street, Boston. Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, 1894.
- City of Boston, Landmarks Commission. Connolly's Bar Study Report, 1997
References
- (January 1981). "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Boston". Massachusetts Historical Commission.
- [[Thomas Hyde Page. Page, Sir Thomas Hyde]], [[:File:Boston, 1775bsmall1.png. "A plan of the town of Boston with the intrenchments &ca. of His Majesty's forces in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from those of other gentlemen."]] Source: Library of Congress
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