Near the T · 25 stops · 5 packs

Near Boylston

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

1. Bad Ends
   In 1895 the subway dig moved about 910 people. The expense line reads 'Care of human remains,' $202.00.
   1 MIN · 2 M
2. Under Boston
   The Centennial Car
   1 MIN · 2 M
3. Banned in Boston
   In 1915 a Black editor was told The Birth of a Nation was sold out here, and the state's new censorship board called the film 'not at all objectionable.'
   1 MIN · 66 M
4. Banned in Boston
   When Scollay Square was razed, its trade moved here, and in November 1974 Boston made it official.
   3 MIN · 175 M
5. Banned in Boston
   H.H. Richardson's only surviving commercial building in Boston spent the 1970s as a peep show, and for almost a century nobody knew it was his.
   3 MIN · 206 M
6. Bad Ends
   The best old source on the 'hanging tree' is a surgeon's pamphlet, and he meant hanging in effigy.
   4 MIN · 269 M
7. Banned in Boston
   In April 1970 the justices of the state's highest court each went to see Hair, then ruled the cast must be 'clothed to a reasonable extent.'
   4 MIN · 270 M
8. Banned in Boston
   Groucho Marx, playing here in October 1929, gave Boston's censorship a one-line review: 'Boston's a pain in the neck.'
   4 MIN · 308 M
9. Banned in Boston
   In 1929 Boston banned a Pulitzer Prize play from a theatre on Hollis Street. The play survived. The street didn't.
   5 MIN · 375 M
10. 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.
    5 MIN · 398 M
11. The 1852 Hunt
    Boston's first keyless alarm box went in on this corner in 1881.
    6 MIN · 404 M
12. 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.
    6 MIN · 423 M
13. The 1852 Hunt
    The first boxes had a crank, and people turned it according to how excited they were.
    6 MIN · 435 M
14. 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.
    6 MIN · 451 M
15. Under Boston
    Under this park is the sealed southern mouth of the first subway, and the tunnel to Boylston is still there.
    6 MIN · 462 M
16. Bad Ends
    The Common's maintenance fund came from the murdered man's son.
    6 MIN · 477 M
17. Shot Here
    Colin Sullivan's penthouse in The Departed is a law library.
    7 MIN · 495 M
18. The 1852 Hunt
    The Great Fire started in a basement on this corner, and no photograph of it burning is known to exist.
    7 MIN · 500 M
19. Shot Here
    Most of Glory's 1860s Boston was Savannah. This memorial is the real part.
    7 MIN · 506 M
20. Shot Here
    The ducklings have a bronze twin in Moscow, sent in 1991 as a gift to Soviet children.
    7 MIN · 509 M
21. Banned in Boston
    Jacques has been a gay bar in Bay Village since the 1940s, through the raids, and Boston's first Pride march started at its door in 1971.
    7 MIN · 552 M
22. Banned in Boston
    The Censors' Last Address
    8 MIN · 576 M
23. Bad Ends
    The plinth says she was hanged on the Common. A judge's diary points a mile south.
    8 MIN · 582 M
24. 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.
    8 MIN · 587 M
25. The 1852 Hunt
    The officer who opened Box 52 for the Great Fire had his own key. The alarm was still a quarter hour late.
    8 MIN · 600 M

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