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Paul Revere Mall (Boston Prado)

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Boston Prado
1933, Arthur A. Shurcliff. Off Hanover Street opposite St. Stephen's Church.
  • Paul Revere Mall (Boston Prado) (Peter Vanderwarker or Antonina Smith)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • St. Stephen's Church in background (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • (Photograph by Robert S. Salzar)

A fine pedestrian passage, this longitudinal public space links two Boston landmarks, St. Stephen's Church (NE9) on Hanover Street and Old North (or Christ) Church (NE12) on Salem Street. Rows of European linden trees soften the brick surfaces of the surrounding apartment buildings, whereas bronze plaques affixed to the nine-foot-tall brick walls provide a historical context. Spatial sequences are designed to provide appropriate focal points, notably the equestrian Paul Revere designed by Cyrus Dallin in 1885, but only cast in 1940, and to capitalize on views and approaches to enclosing monuments, the Ebenezer Clough House (NE11), Old North Church, and St. Stephen's Church. Mayor James Michael Curley initiated the idea for the park after a visit to Madrid. Fifteen tenements and one hotel were demolished to provide space for the plaza designed by Arthur A. Shurcliff, then at work on re-creating the landscape for Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Keith N. Morgan
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What's Nearby

Ebenezer Clough House
St. Stephen's Church (New North Church)
Nazzaro Community Center (North Bennet Street Bathhouse)
Old North Church
North Bennet Street School

Citation

Keith N. Morgan, "Paul Revere Mall (Boston Prado)", [Boston, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-NE10.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Massachusetts

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, 92-93.

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