Near the T · 31 stops · 5 packs

Near Government Center

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

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.
1 MIN · 41 M
Under Boston
The Kettle That Was Measured by the City
1 MIN · 45 M
Under Boston
A Station in the Cellar
2 MIN · 154 M
Bad Ends
The stone people call Hester Prynne's may belong to a woman the court found 'greatly negligent' in her child's death.
3 MIN · 169 M
Under Boston
The subway builders listed this graveyard as one of seven places the first subway breathed.
3 MIN · 174 M
The 1852 Hunt
Before it took a single real alarm, Boston's fire telegraph rang the city's bells from New York.
3 MIN · 199 M
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.
4 MIN · 256 M
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.
4 MIN · 278 M
Shot Here
In 1967 a film crew staged a robbery at a real Boston bank.
4 MIN · 294 M
Under Boston
The building with the farmers' market is deeper underground than it is tall.
5 MIN · 332 M
The 1852 Hunt
The Great Fire was stopped at Washington and Milk, a short distance from Old South's door.
5 MIN · 346 M
Shot Here
For nineteen years this marketplace had a copy of a TV set of a Boston bar.
5 MIN · 348 M
Bad Ends
The plinth says she was hanged on the Common. A judge's diary points a mile south.
5 MIN · 351 M
Shot Here
Colin Sullivan's penthouse in The Departed is a law library.
5 MIN · 372 M
Shot Here
Liberty Square was Free City in 2019 and old New York in 2022.
5 MIN · 379 M
Under Boston
From December 1897, Boston fired its mail under these streets in steel cans of compressed air.
5 MIN · 381 M
The 1852 Hunt
Every address in Boston is filed under a fire alarm box, a bit like a zip code.
5 MIN · 389 M
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 · 414 M
Shot Here
Most of Glory's 1860s Boston was Savannah. This memorial is the real part.
6 MIN · 429 M
The 1852 Hunt
The City's public map of its fire alarm boxes has a dot in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
6 MIN · 437 M
Shot Here
The Departed's police headquarters was built for the state's employment office.
6 MIN · 441 M
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 · 447 M
The 1852 Hunt
Boston's first keyless alarm box went in on this corner in 1881.
6 MIN · 460 M
Under Boston
Seven floors of parked cars under this lawn pay for the flowers on top.
6 MIN · 473 M
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.
6 MIN · 476 M
The 1852 Hunt
The first boxes had a crank, and people turned it according to how excited they were.
6 MIN · 479 M
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 · 481 M
Banned in Boston
The Censors' Last Address
7 MIN · 481 M
Bad Ends
The Common's maintenance fund came from the murdered man's son.
7 MIN · 538 M
The 1852 Hunt
In November 1872, Boston's fire engines were pulled by men, because the horses were sick.
7 MIN · 542 M
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 · 545 M

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