Off the Bricks

Shot Here · STOP 09 · Financial District

In 1967 a film crew staged a robbery at a real Boston bank.

In the summer of 1967 a film crew staged a robbery at a real downtown Boston bank, the National Shawmut, to open The Thomas Crown Affair. Suffolk University's student paper says the doors from the film are still on Congress Street. A block up, a Spotlight reporter jumps out of a cab, in one of that film's roughly four Boston shooting days. The doors are still showing off.

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The Shawmut Job

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55 Congress Street, between State and Water Streets
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The Shawmut was a Congress Street bank long before the movie. When and Where in Boston says it began in 1836 as the Warren Bank at 60 Congress Street, and merged into Fleet in 1995.

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How sure can anyone be that this is Thomas Crown's bank?

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Near State · Near Government Center · Near Downtown Crossing · Near Aquarium · Near Park Street · Near Bowdoin · Near Haymarket

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