Benjamin Franklin's Birthplace
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Boston Post Building (Benjamin Franklin's Birthplace)
1874, Peabody and Stearns and Architectural Iron Works of New York. 17 Milk St.
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Boston Post Building (Benjamin Franklin's Birthplace) (NRD) (Keith Morgan)
The front of the Boston Post Building is one of the few Boston cast-iron fronts for which the foundry is known. The facade is very ornate and fanciful, although only the second, third, and lower half of the fourth stories are original. The upper stories were altered in 1930. A bust of Benjamin Franklin is incorporated into the design between the second and third stories, to commemorate the site of his birthplace, his original house having been
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Keith N. Morgan, "Boston Post Building (Benjamin Franklin's Birthplace)", [Boston, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-BD15.
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Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, Keith N. Morgan, with Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, 61-62.
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