The List of notable addresses in Beacon Hill, Boston contains information, by street, of significant buildings and the people who lived in the community. Many of the street names have changed. For instance, Phillips street was once called Southack Street.

Current and former street names

Anderson Street – West Centre Street Bowdoin Street – Middlecott Street Bulfinch Street Court Street – Prison Lane, then Queen Street Howard – Southack's Court (after Capt. Cyprian Southack) Irving Street – Butolph Street Joy Street Clapboard Street (between Cambridge and Myrtle Streets in 1735) Belknap Lane (between Myrtle and Mount Vernon Streets) Mt. Vernon Street – Sumner Phillips Street – Southack Street (after Capt. Cyprian Southack) Revere Street – May Street Smith Court – May's Court State Street – King Street Tremont – Common (NE of School Street where Beacon Street ends) West Cedar Street – George Street

Notable addresses in Beacon Hill

Beacon Street

Beacon Street is a main thoroughfare from the Tremont Street and School Street intersection to Charles Street. Hancock Manor was located at 30 Beacon Street; Its land is now part of the grounds of the Massachusetts State House. One Beacon Street – An eponymous office tower at the corner of Tremont Street; the 14th-tallest building in the city 8 Beacon Street – late 19th- and early 20th-century home of the Osgood Family: Dr. Osgood, Margaret Osgood and daughters Gretchen and Mary 10½ Beacon Street – Boston Athenæum 14 Beacon Street – Congregational House, site of the Congregational Library and City Mission Society 16 Beacon Street – Chester Harding House, now home to the Boston Bar Association, was home to the famous portrait painter Chester Harding from 1826–1830 22 Beacon Street – Amory-Ticknor House, built in 1804 by Charles Bulfinch; used to house the Beacon Hill studio for Fox 25 News (WFXT), with a strategic rooftop camera position 24 Beacon Street – Massachusetts State House 25 Beacon Street – former headquarters of the Unitarian Universalist Association, an international liberal religious denomination, which is now located at 24 Farnsworth Street 33 Beacon Street – resident George Parkman; building designed by Cornelius Coolidge 34½ Beacon Street – erstwhile headquarters of Family Service of Greater Boston, a private, nonprofit social service agency founded in 1835 39–40 Beacon Street – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow courted and married Fanny Appleton 42–43 Beacon Street – painter John Singleton Copley had a house on this site, as did David Sears II, whose house is now the home of the Somerset Club 45 Beacon Street – Third Harrison Gray Otis House, now American Meteorological Society 57 Beacon Street - Thomas J. Eckley house, Ephraim Marsh, architect (1819). Notable as town residence of George Nixon Black, Jr., also owner of Kragsyde, iconic Shingle Style cottage and Woodlawn Museum, his Asher Benjamin ancestral home in Maine. Black was a major benefactor of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 54–55 Beacon Street – resident William H. Prescott had William Makepeace Thackeray as a houseguest. The pair of buildings is now the Headquarters House 84 Beacon Street – Cheers Beacon Hill. Formerly known as the Bull & Finch Pub, this pub was the inspiration for the classic television show, Cheers, and was shown during the opening credits of the sitcom.

Bowdoin Street

Located near the West End, Bowdoin Street extends from the top of Beacon Street, down Beacon Hill to Cambridge Street

35 Bowdoin Street – Church of Saint John the Evangelist 122 Bowdoin Street – nominal resident, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (registered voting address)

Brimmer Street 30 Brimmer Street – Church of the Advent (official site) 44 Brimmer Street – resident Samuel Eliot Morison

Cambridge Street

Massachusetts General Hospital – Bulfinch Pavilion and Ether Dome 100 Cambridge Street, Upper Plaza – Garden of Peace 131 Cambridge Street – Old West Church 141 Cambridge Street – First Harrison Gray Otis House, architect Charles Bulfinch

Charles Street Running north to south, Charles Street runs through the middle of Boston. 44A Charles Street – Mary Sullivan, last victim of the Boston Strangler, murdered here 70 Charles Street – Charles Street Meeting House

Chestnut Street

2 Chestnut Street – held the Garland Junior College from 1872 to 1976 6 Chestnut Street – Beacon Hill Friends House 13, 15, 17 Chestnut Street – architect Charles Bulfinch designed row-houses for Hepzibah Swan 18 Chestnut Street – birthplace of poet Robert Lowell 50 Chestnut Street – resident Francis Parkman, historian; building designed by Cornelius Coolidge 57A Chestnut Street – Harvard Musical Association

Grove Street 28 Grove Street – resident Rev. Leonard A. Grimes, prominent black clergyman associated with the Underground Railroad and abolitionist movement. Noted for being one of the men who bought the freedom of Anthony Burns after his arrest.

Irving Street 58 Irving Street – birthplace of Charles Sumner, abolitionist, U.S. Senator.

Joy Street

46 Joy Street – African Meeting House 60 Joy Street – Peter Faneuil School 67 Joy Street – resident Rebecca Lee Crumpler, prominent physician, considered to be the first black woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.

Louisburg Square Named for the Siege of Louisbourg, the square is a private park and the name of the area around it. 4 Louisburg Square – resident William Dean Howells while editor of the Atlantic Monthly 10 Louisburg Square – residents Amos Bronson Alcott and Louisa May Alcott and family 19 Louisburg Square – residents John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry 20 Louisburg Square – singer Jenny Lind married Otto Goldschmidt here

Mount Vernon Street

5 Mount Vernon Street – former site of Dr. Park's "Boston Lyceum for the Education of Young Ladies" 8 Mount Vernon Street – home of Fiske Warren and Gretchen Osgood Warren 32 Mount Vernon Street – residents Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe and his wife Julia Ward Howe 41 Mount Vernon Street – home of Beacon Press, a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association, that published the Senator Mike Gravel edition of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, which is now located at 24 Farnsworth Street. Former home of the Watch and Ward Society 45–47 Mount Vernon Street – site of Portia School of Law, founded for women in 1908 51–57 Mount Vernon Street – architect Charles Bulfinch 55 Mount Vernon Street – home of Rose Standish Nichols, now the Nichols House Museum 57 Mount Vernon Street – residents Daniel Webster and later Charles Francis Adams 67 Mount Vernon Street – home of Samuel Dennis and Susan Cornelia Warren, paper manufacturer and one time president of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 72 Mount Vernon Street – site of the Boston University School of Theology 76 Mount Vernon Street – home of Margaret Deland 77 Mount Vernon Street – resident Sarah Wyman Whitman and later the clubhouse of the Club of Odd Volumes 85 Mount Vernon Street – Second Harrison Gray Otis House, architect Charles Bulfinch 87 Mount Vernon Street – Colonial Society of Massachusetts, architect Charles Bulfinch 127 Mount Vernon Street – home of The Real World: Boston and Spenser: For Hire, former Boston Fire Department station

Myrtle Street 109 Myrtle Street – resident Lysander Spooner, an American individualist anarchist.

Park Street Park Street is a small but notable road. 8 Park Street – Union Club of Boston Park Street District

Phillips Street Formerly known as Southack Court, after the owner Cyprian Southack 2 Phillips Street – Resident John Coburn 18 Phillips Street – The Vilna Shul, now Boston's Center For Jewish Culture 41 Phillips Street – Erstwhile site of the Northeast Institute of Industrial Technology 66 Phillips Street – Lewis and Harriet Hayden House, associated with the Abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad 83 Phillips Street – Resident John Sweat Rock, prominent black dentist, attorney, and abolitionist activist

Pinckney Street 15 Pinckney Street – a site of Elizabeth Peabody's Kindergarten 86 Pinckney Street – home of abolitionist, and state legislator John J. Smith 105 Pinckney Street – Resident P.P.F. Degrand

Smith Court

3 Smith Court – residence of William Cooper Nell, African American abolitionist, author and historian

Tremont Street Tremont Street is a main thoroughfare; Its name evolved from trimount including Beacon Hill, Mount Vernon and Pemberton Hill. Beacon Theatre was once located at 47–53 Tremont Street.

Other residents Writers Brad Meltzer and Judd Winick lived in a tiny apartment in Beacon Hill in 1993 before they achieved success. While living there, Winick developed his first successful comic strip and Meltzer worked at Games Magazine by day while working on his first novel at night.

References

External links Beacon Hill History Beacon Hill Online Black Beacon Hill Vilna Shul Back Bay – Beacon Hill 2000 Census of Population and Housing Beacon Hill Quick-Walk Metropolitan Museum of Art. First Methodist Church, Temple Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, c. 1930. Photo by Walker Evans.