National Register of Historic Places

Douglass, Frederick, Square Historic District

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Listed
October 2, 1996
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
96001063

About this property

The Frederick Douglass Square Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Hammond Street, Cabot Street, Windsor Street, and Westminster Street, in the Lower Roxbury area of Boston, Massachusetts. It covers a 5-acre (2.0 ha) that is a remarkably well-preserved and cohesive residential development created as the result of one of Boston's many land-reclamation projects in the 19th century. This area, originally salt marshes that flooded at high tide, was at first gradually filled in as the Boston Neck was widened with the construction of Tremont Street and railroad lines. The Tremont Improvement Company acquired a remnant portion of the salt marshes by the early 1860s, and built a series of single-family row houses on the land that resulted from filling it in. The district includes most of the residential properties on Warwick, Greenwich, and Sussex Streets, as well as clusters of properties on adjacent streets. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 and is a pending Boston Landmark. The nearby intersection of Tremont and Hammond streets was dedicated as Frederick Douglass Square in 1917, giving the district its name.

Location

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
42.33633, -71.08406

Categories

ARCHITECTURECOMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTSOCIAL HISTORY
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Sources

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Nearby Battles

Siege of Boston – Roxbury Lines
1775Revolutionary War
0.9 mi

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When was Douglass, Frederick, Square Historic District listed on the National Register?

Douglass, Frederick, Square Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1996.

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Douglass, Frederick, Square Historic District is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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