Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts
Post Office Square (named after the post office which lay on it,[1] now replaced by the John W. McCormack Post Office and Court House) in Boston, Massachusetts is almost entirely occupied by a privately owned and managed public park
named Norman B. Leventhal Park, after the Boston building manager and designer who
designed it. It sits above a parking garage in the heart of the Financial District. This garage, named "The Garage at Post Office
Square,"[2] is at 80 ft (24 m) below the surface, is
the deepest point in the city, and revenues from parking fund the maintenance of the park. The 1.7 acre (6,900 m²) park is a
popular lunchtime destination for area workers. It features a
Also on the square is the New England Telephone Building, in which the lab in which the first telephone was made has been reconstructed.[4]
Harvard University reached an agreement with the Friends of Post Office Square to place six large trees from its Arnold Arboretum collection on permanent loan in the square, but "[a]s of 2003, only one of the... trees remain."[1]
History
Post Office Square was the site of a 1964 speech by Lyndon B. Johnson.[5]
It was also the site of the now-closed Boston Claim Assistance Site of the September 11th Victim Compensation Program.[6]
Notes
- ^ McNulty, Elizabeth (2002). Boston Then and Now (Then & Now). Thunder Bay Press. ISBN 1571451773pages=52.
- ^ Garage At Post Office Square.
- ^ Zhan Guo and Alex-Ricardo Jimenez. Boston.com / Beyond the Big Dig / Case Studies.
- ^ Kruh, David (2004). Scollay Square (MA) (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing.
- ^ John Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks in Boston at Post Office Square.
- ^ September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.
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