Near the T · 27 stops · 5 packs

Near Bowdoin

Stops from the walks within about 600 m of Bowdoin station, closest first.

1. Shot Here
   The Departed's police headquarters was built for the state's employment office.
   2 MIN · 145 M
2. Banned in Boston
   The Old Howard began as a church for people expecting the end of the world, and ended in 1953 when the vice squad brought a film camera.
   4 MIN · 302 M
3. Under Boston
   The Kettle That Was Measured by the City
   5 MIN · 327 M
4. Bad Ends
   The plinth says she was hanged on the Common. A judge's diary points a mile south.
   5 MIN · 370 M
5. Bad Ends
   The stone people call Hester Prynne's may belong to a woman the court found 'greatly negligent' in her child's death.
   5 MIN · 380 M
6. The 1852 Hunt
   Before it took a single real alarm, Boston's fire telegraph rang the city's bells from New York.
   5 MIN · 390 M
7. Under Boston
   The subway builders listed this graveyard as one of seven places the first subway breathed.
   5 MIN · 397 M
8. Banned in Boston
   The Censors' Last Address
   6 MIN · 414 M
9. Bad Ends
   On August 30, 1850, Boston hanged a Harvard chemistry professor about here.
   6 MIN · 426 M
10. Banned in Boston
    In 1860 'a mob of gentlemen' took this stage, and Frederick Douglass said the mayor broke up the meeting instead of protecting it.
    6 MIN · 442 M
11. Shot Here
    Most of Glory's 1860s Boston was Savannah. This memorial is the real part.
    6 MIN · 446 M
12. Under Boston
    A Station in the Cellar
    6 MIN · 450 M
13. Under Boston
    The Sky Over Causeway Street Used to Be Steel
    6 MIN · 455 M
14. Under Boston
    The building with the farmers' market is deeper underground than it is tall.
    7 MIN · 489 M
15. Bad Ends
    The Common's maintenance fund came from the murdered man's son.
    7 MIN · 510 M
16. Bad Ends
    A dentist identified Parkman from a set of false teeth he'd made in 1846.
    7 MIN · 511 M
17. The 1852 Hunt
    Boston's first fire alarm came from this street in 1852, and so did the one that mattered when 911 went down in 2018.
    7 MIN · 515 M
18. Shot Here
    Colin Sullivan's penthouse in The Departed is a law library.
    7 MIN · 523 M
19. Banned in Boston
    This corner held the house of the woman Boston banished in 1637, and later the shop of the city's great literary publishers.
    7 MIN · 528 M
20. Banned in Boston
    H.L. Mencken came to this corner in 1926 to sell one magazine to the one man in Boston who wanted to arrest him.
    7 MIN · 530 M
21. Bad Ends
    The ether room's longest tenant is an Egyptian mummy. His head was once put back on with a broom handle.
    7 MIN · 537 M
22. 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.
    7 MIN · 542 M
23. Banned in Boston
    In the 1890s a public speech on the Common needed the mayor's permit, and Oliver Wendell Holmes said that was fine.
    7 MIN · 558 M
24. Shot Here
    Thomas Crown came home to a house Bulfinch built for a future mayor.
    8 MIN · 564 M
25. The 1852 Hunt
    Boston's first keyless alarm box went in on this corner in 1881.
    8 MIN · 574 M
26. Shot Here
    In 1967 a film crew staged a robbery at a real Boston bank.
    8 MIN · 590 M
27. Shot Here
    For nineteen years this marketplace had a copy of a TV set of a Boston bar.
    8 MIN · 598 M

Minutes are the straight-line distance at 80 m a minute. The walk on the street is longer.