You are here

Metropolitan Boston » Core Boston » Financial District » State Street Bank

State Street Bank

-A A +A
1966, Pearl Street Associates (F. A. Stahl Associates, Hugh Stubbins and Associates, Le Messurier and Associates). 225 Franklin St.

This thirty-four-story tower occupies the site of an inn where George Washington stayed in October 1789. It is distinguished by its skyline logo and its pre-cast-concrete window frames, providing a uniform rhythm throughout. The whole rises from a cantilevered base and is marked by a certain monotony, despite attempts to relate the building to its surroundings. The State Street Bank was one of the first institutions to stimulate reinvestment in downtown when it built this new headquarters in 1966.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Keith N. Morgan
×

Data

What's Nearby

Combined Jewish Philanthropies Building (Dalton Building)
UBS Building (Paine Webber Building)
125 High Street
Chadwick Lead Works
1 Post Office Square/Langham Hotel (Federal Reserve Bank)

Citation

Keith N. Morgan, "State Street Bank", [Boston, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-FD5.

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, 65-65.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,