| 词条 | Post Office Square, Boston |
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| name = Post Office Square | nickname = | image = Langham boston.jpg | image_caption = The Langham Hotel is situated along the northeastern edge of the square. Norman B. Leventhal park is also visible in the foreground. | image_size = 250px | settlement_type = Square in Boston | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Massachusetts}} | subdivision_type2 = City | subdivision_name2 = Boston | subdivision_type3 = District | subdivision_name3 = Financial District | blank_name_sec1 = Boundaries | blank_info_sec1 = Franklin Street, Congress Street, Milk Street, Pearl Street | blank4_name_sec1 = Historical features | blank4_info_sec1 = Norman B. Leventhal park }} Post Office Square (est. 1874) in Boston, Massachusetts is a square located in the financial district at the intersection of Milk, Congress, Pearl and Water Streets.[1][2] It was named in 1874 after the United States Post Office and Sub-Treasury which fronted it,[3] now replaced by the John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse. The square is almost entirely occupied by a privately owned and managed but publicly accessible park, Norman B. Leventhal Park, named for the Boston building manager and designer who designed it. It sits above a parking garage, named "The Garage at Post Office Square."[4][5] The garage descends to {{convert|80|ft}} below the surface, at the time one of the deepest points of excavation in the city. Revenues from parking fund the maintenance of the park. The {{convert|1.7|acre|sing=on}} park is a popular lunchtime destination for area workers. It features a café, fountains, and a pergola around a central lawn, and the management provides seat cushions for visitors during the summer. Designed by landscape architects The Halvorson Company, the park is also home to "125 species of plants."[6] HistoryIn the 18th century, rope manufacturers occupied the area, then it became a residential district, and later a business and commercial area. The Great Boston fire of 1872 swept through the area, and as rebuilding began the area began to be called Post Office Square after the new United States Post Office and Sub-Treasury Building (Boston) which faced the square.[7] In 1874, the headquarters of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, designed by Nathaniel Bradlee, was erected in the square on the site of what is now Norman B. Leventhal Park. This building was demolished in 1945, and a large parking garage which filled the area of the present park was erected, being completed in 1954.[7] Post Office Square was the site of a 1964 speech by Lyndon B. Johnson.[8] There was a transformer explosion and fire in the One Post Office Square building in December 1986. An electric company worker was killed but it was after normal business hours and the building was able to be evacuated with only a few injuries.[9] The above-ground parking garage was demolished in 1988. The new garage, entirely underground, was opened in 1990 at a cost of $18 million,[10] and the park above it was completed in 1992.[7] Major buildingsSignificant buildings on the square include the following:
Notes1. ^Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MOpIAAAAMAAJ A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston]. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910. 2. ^http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/streetbook/ 3. ^{{cite book|first=Elizabeth|last=McNulty|title=Boston Then and Now (Then & Now)|publisher=Thunder Bay Press|year=2002|isbn=1-57145-177-3|page=52}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Garage At Post Office Square|url=http://www.posquare.com/|accessdate=2007-06-30}} 5. ^{{YouTube|IinjQkSWYLI|"Tour of the Garage at Post Office Square - Boston MA"|link=no}} 6. ^{{cite news|author=Zhan Guo and Alex-Ricardo Jimenez|title=Boston.com / Beyond the Big Dig / Case Studies|url=http://www.boston.com/beyond_bigdig/cases/post_office.htm|accessdate=2007-06-30 | work=The Boston Globe}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www.normanbleventhalpark.org/about-us/history-of-post-office-square/ |title=History of Boston’s Post Office Square |work=Norman B. Leventhal Park website |accessdate=May 7, 2017}} 8. ^{{cite web|author=John Woolley and Gerhard Peters|title=Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks in Boston at Post Office Square|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=26673|accessdate=2007-06-30}} 9. ^{{cite news|title= 9 Injured in Explosion At Boston Skyscraper|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEFDE163AF933A25751C1A960948260|accessdate=2008-04-28 | work=The New York Times | date=1986-12-10}} 10. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f95n9otA0g National Geographic Megastructures - Boston's Big Dig 1], YouTube 11. ^{{cite news|last1=Ross|first1=Casey|title=An Art Deco makeover|url=http://archive.boston.com/business/articles/2011/02/24/art_deco_tower_in_post_office_square_getting_makeover/|accessdate=28 May 2016|work=Boston Globe|date=24 February 2011}} 12. ^{{cite book|first=David|last=Kruh|title=Scollay Square (MA) (Images of America)|year=2004|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=0-7385-3667-9}} 13. ^{{cite web|title=About Federal Reserve Plaza|url=http://www.federalreserveplaza.com/content/AboutFRP_Overview.html|accessdate=28 May 2016}} External links{{commons category|Post Office Square (Boston)}}
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