Old City Hall, Boston. Old City Hall, built between 1862 and 1865, is located at 45 School Street, along the Freedom Trail between the Old South Meeting House and King's Chapel.
The Boston Latin School operated on the site from 1704 to 1748, and on the same street until 1844. Also on the site, the Suffolk County Courthouse was erected in 1810 and converted to Boston's second city hall in 1841, being replaced by the current building twenty-four years later.
Thirty-eight Boston mayors, including John F. Fitzgerald, Maurice J. Tobin, and James Michael Curley, served their terms of office on School Street at this site over a period of 128 years. With the move to the current Boston City Hall in 1969, Old City Hall was converted over the next two years to serve other functions-an early and successful example of adaptive reuse.
The Boston-based nonprofit developer Architectural Heritage Foundation, Inc. and the architecture firm Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc completed the adaptive use and renovation.
AHF Boston subsequently managed the property for fifty years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1970. The granite exterior characterized by ornamented columns, the mansard roof, and the projecting central bay. The massive front doors, unusual in the use of different wood, as well as the inlay of the marble circle in each door.
The Boston Latin School operated on the site from 1704 to 1748, and on the same street until 1844. Also on the site, the Suffolk County Courthouse was erected in 1810 and converted to Boston's second city hall in 1841, being replaced by the current building twenty-four years later.
Thirty-eight Boston mayors, including John F. Fitzgerald, Maurice J. Tobin, and James Michael Curley, served their terms of office on School Street at this site over a period of 128 years. With the move to the current Boston City Hall in 1969, Old City Hall was converted over the next two years to serve other functions-an early and successful example of adaptive reuse.
The Boston-based nonprofit developer Architectural Heritage Foundation, Inc. and the architecture firm Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc completed the adaptive use and renovation.
AHF Boston subsequently managed the property for fifty years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1970. The granite exterior characterized by ornamented columns, the mansard roof, and the projecting central bay. The massive front doors, unusual in the use of different wood, as well as the inlay of the marble circle in each door.
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