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Boston Buildings and Neighborhoods 

This is a guide to Rotch Library resources focused on Boston neighborhoods and buildings, as well as landmark sites in and around the city.
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The Boston Landmarks Commission issues reports that seek to justify landmark status for Boston buildings. The Commission also carries out studies of neighborhoods for landmark districting status. These reports contain a wealth of information on individual structures as well as street and neighborhood histories, and include maps and photographs.

At MIT's Rotch Library these reports are kept in the microfiche cabinet labeled "Current Urban Documents" in the Reference Area of the main floor.

Reports are listed here by neighborhood; each entry is followed by the microfiche number.

Neighborhoods:

 

Allston/Brighton

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Allston/Brighton building and streetscape study 0650
Boston Cenacle (convent and retreat house) 1118
Saint Gabriel's Monastery 0549, 0999
 

Back Bay

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Beacon Street (137, Gibson House) 1174
Arlington Street Church 0339
Berkeley Building 0792
Berkeley Street (154, Boston Police Department Headquarters) 1116
Berkeley Street (234, Bonwit Teller/Museum of Natural History) 0903
Boylston Street (420, Berkeley Building) 0792
Boylston Street (500, Coulton Building) 0785
Commonwealth Avenue Mall 0339
Coulton Building (500 Boylston Street) 0785
Gibson House (137 Beacon Street) 1174
Public Garden 0289
 

Beacon Hill

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Beacon Street (40, Women's City Club) 1176
Vilna Shul (14-18 Phillips Street) 1029
 

Charlestown

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Austin Block (92 Main Street) 0548
Charlestown Savings Bank 0385
City Square Historic and Archaeological Site 1175
Phipps Street Burying Ground 0825
Ropewalk Building (Navy Yard) 0959
 

Dorchester

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Ashmont Hill study 0417
Clam Point (development history) 0562
Dorchester North Burying Ground 0682, 0826
Dorchester/Mattapan building and street study 0651, 0652
Dorchester Pottery Works 0541
Roswell Gleason House 0307
 

Downtown

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Ames Building (1 Court Street) 1238
Arch Street (93-101) 0785
Armory of the First Corps of Cadets (130 Columbus Avenue) 0288
Bay Village Historic District 0681
Bedford Street (100-106, Proctor Building) 0678
Boston Common 0289
Broad Street (5-7) 0677
Broad Street (9) 0676
Broad Street (50-52) 0768
Broad Street (64a-64) 0679
Broad Street (66) 0679
Broad Street (68-70) 0680
Broad Street (72) 0677
Broad Street (102) 0676
Bromfield Street (20-30) 0675
Central Business District preservation study 0653, 0654, 0655, 0656, 0657
Columbus Avenue (130, Armory) 0288
Court Street (1, Ames Building) 1238
Devonshire Street (54, Prince Building) 1240
Ebenezer Hancock House (Marshal Street) 0306
Evans House (174-5 Tremont Street) 1120
Faneuil Hall 1273
Federal Reserve Bank (Post Office Square) 0385
Flour and Grain Exchange (177 Milk Street) 1239
India Street (25-27) 0680
International Trust Company Building (45 Milk Street) 0307
Kennedy's Department Store 0678
King's Chapel and Granary Burying Grounds 0828
Liberty Tree Building (628-636 Washington Street) 0768
Milk Street (45) 0307
Milk Street (177, Flour and Grain Exchange) 1239
New Studio Building (104-116 Tremont Street) 1001
Old State House 1272
Phillips Building (118-122 Tremont Street) 1000
Prince Building (54 Devonshire Street) 1240
Proctor Building (100-106 Bedford Street) 0678
Second Brazer Building 0793
 

Theater District

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Building and streetscape study 0649
Colonial Theatre 0706, 1119
Paramount Theatre 0702
Savoy Theatre 0704
Saxon Theatre 0702
Wang Center 0704, 1117
Wilbur Theatre 0706
Tremont Street (104-116, New Studio Building) 1001
Tremont Street (118-122) 1000
Tremont Street (174-5) 1120
United States Customs House 0855
Washington Street (628-636, Liberty Tree Building) 0768
 

East Boston

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Donald McKay House 0276

Meridian Street (406, Trinity Neighborhood House)		 0560

Princeton Street (39, Whidden house)		 1121
Princeton Street (41, Stevenson House) 1121
 

Fenway

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Back Bay Fens 0682
Fenway project completion report 0755
Sears Roebuck Mail Order House 1020
 

Jamaica Plain

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Adams-Nervine Asylum 0276
Emerald Necklace (Jamaica Pond, Olmsted Park, Riverway) 1018
Haffenreffer Brewery (Dahl Factory Building) 0493
Jamaica Plain (architects and builders survey) 0856
Jamaica Plain (preservation survey) 0856
Jamaica Plain (survey and planning grant) 0857, 0858
James Michael Curley House (Arborway) 0960, 1016
 

North End

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Copps Hill Burying Ground 0827
St. Mary's Church and Rectory 0288
 

Roslindale

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Roslindale and West Roxbury project completion reports 1033
 

Roxbury

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Cox Building (Eliot Square) 0492
Eustis Street and Central Burying Grounds 0828
Eustis Street conservation district 0547
Franklin Park 0541
Mission Hill Triangle 0795
Parker Hill/Mission Hill survey and planning grant 0844, 0845
 

South Boston

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Harrison Loring Estate (789 East Broadway) 0560
South Boston preservation study 0662, 0663
 

South End

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Allen House (1682 Washington Street) 0491
Church of the Immaculate Conception 0896
St. Botolph district study 0572
South End landmark district 0703
 

West End

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Causeway Street (216-246, Stop and Shop Bakery) 1032
Charles River Building (131 Beverly Street) 1031
Hoffman Building (160-170 North Washington Street) 1030
Massachusetts General Hospital (Resident Physician's House) 0577
Suffolk County Jail 0396, 0794
 

West Roxbury

Building/Location Microfiche Number
Brook Farm 0306
Roslindale and West Roxbury project completion reports 1033
Theodore Parker Unitarian Church 0769
 
 

Subject Expert

Peter Cohn
Associate Head, Rotch
pcohn@mit.edu

Heather McCann
Reference Coordinator and Public Services Librarian, Rotch
hmccann@mit.edu

 

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