Near the T · 26 stops · 5 packs

Near Chinatown

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

1. Banned in Boston
   When Scollay Square was razed, its trade moved here, and in November 1974 Boston made it official.
   1 MIN · 28 M
2. 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.
   2 MIN · 83 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.'
   2 MIN · 106 M
4. Bad Ends
   In 1895 the subway dig moved about 910 people. The expense line reads 'Care of human remains,' $202.00.
   2 MIN · 160 M
5. 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.
   2 MIN · 160 M
6. Under Boston
   The Centennial Car
   2 MIN · 160 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 · 279 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.'
   5 MIN · 326 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 · 328 M
10. The 1852 Hunt
    The Great Fire started in a basement on this corner, and no photograph of it burning is known to exist.
    5 MIN · 369 M
11. Bad Ends
    The best old source on the 'hanging tree' is a surgeon's pamphlet, and he meant hanging in effigy.
    5 MIN · 376 M
12. The 1852 Hunt
    The first boxes had a crank, and people turned it according to how excited they were.
    5 MIN · 377 M
13. The 1852 Hunt
    Boston's first keyless alarm box went in on this corner in 1881.
    6 MIN · 409 M
14. 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.
    6 MIN · 429 M
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.
    6 MIN · 440 M
16. 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 · 455 M
17. 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.
    6 MIN · 456 M
18. 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.
    6 MIN · 461 M
19. Under Boston
    Under this park is the sealed southern mouth of the first subway, and the tunnel to Boylston is still there.
    6 MIN · 476 M
20. Shot Here
    Colin Sullivan's penthouse in The Departed is a law library.
    6 MIN · 479 M
21. The 1852 Hunt
    In November 1872, Boston's fire engines were pulled by men, because the horses were sick.
    7 MIN · 511 M
22. Shot Here
    Most of Glory's 1860s Boston was Savannah. This memorial is the real part.
    7 MIN · 554 M
23. Bad Ends
    The Common's maintenance fund came from the murdered man's son.
    7 MIN · 557 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 · 574 M
25. Under Boston
    The Dewey Square mural wall is 70 by 76 feet of highway air intake.
    8 MIN · 588 M
26. The 1852 Hunt
    The Great Fire was stopped at Washington and Milk, a short distance from Old South's door.
    8 MIN · 599 M

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