Collection · 17 stops · 4 packs

Under Your Feet

Tunnels, mail tubes, buried shoreline and the made land you're standing on.

1. The 1852 Hunt
   The half-built post office stopped the fire's run to the northeast, and the square in front was named for it.
   Post Office Square, Congress and Milk Streets
2. Under Boston
   The Sky Over Causeway Street Used to Be Steel
   
3. Under Boston
   The building with the farmers' market is deeper underground than it is tall.
   Blackstone St at Hanover St, Boston, MA 02113
4. Under Boston
   The subway builders listed this graveyard as one of seven places the first subway breathed.
   Tremont St at School St, Boston, MA 02108
5. Under Boston
   A Station in the Cellar
   
6. Under Boston
   From December 1897, Boston fired its mail under these streets in steel cans of compressed air.
   Post Office Square north of Milk Street, Boston, MA 02109
7. Under Boston
   Seven floors of parked cars under this lawn pay for the flowers on top.
   Post Office Square, bounded by Franklin, Pearl, Milk and Congress Streets, Boston, MA 02109
8. Under Boston
   The InterContinental was built around Big Dig Vent Building 3, and its chimneys still stick out the top.
   510 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02210
9. Under Boston
   The Dewey Square mural wall is 70 by 76 feet of highway air intake.
   Dewey Square, Summer St at Congress St / Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02110
10. Under Boston
    The state and the plant's own owner have both drawn up plans to tear this steam plant down. It's still here.
    165 Kneeland St, Boston, MA 02111
11. Under Boston
    The Transit Commission's own report says ten people died in the 1897 explosion at this corner - six on the spot, four later.
    
12. Under Boston
    The Centennial Car
    Boylston station, Tremont St at Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116
13. Under Boston
    Under this park is the sealed southern mouth of the first subway, and the tunnel to Boylston is still there.
    Tremont St at Shawmut Ave and Oak St West, Boston, MA 02116
14. Under Boston
    On New Year's Day 1884 this building started lifting Boston's sewage about 35 feet and sending it under the harbor.
    435 Mount Vernon St, Boston, MA 02125
15. Under Boston
    The first American subway car reached Park Street three minutes after it entered the tunnel, and this entrance has been collecting plaques ever since.
    Tremont St at Park St, Boston, MA 02108
16. Bad Ends
    In 1895 the subway dig moved about 910 people. The expense line reads 'Care of human remains,' $202.00.
    Tremont Street at Boylston Street, southeast corner of the Common
17. Shot Here
    In 1993 a movie blew up a ship in this harbor, and East Boston's windows broke.
    Long Wharf, off Atlantic Avenue at the foot of State Street