Near the T · 35 stops · 5 packs

Near Park Street

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

1. 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.
   1 MIN · 13 M
2. The 1852 Hunt
   Boston's first keyless alarm box went in on this corner in 1881.
   1 MIN · 28 M
3. 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.
   1 MIN · 42 M
4. 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.
   1 MIN · 47 M
5. Shot Here
   Colin Sullivan's penthouse in The Departed is a law library.
   2 MIN · 106 M
6. Shot Here
   Most of Glory's 1860s Boston was Savannah. This memorial is the real part.
   2 MIN · 151 M
7. 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.
   3 MIN · 181 M
8. The 1852 Hunt
   The first boxes had a crank, and people turned it according to how excited they were.
   3 MIN · 187 M
9. Bad Ends
   The plinth says she was hanged on the Common. A judge's diary points a mile south.
   3 MIN · 194 M
10. Bad Ends
    The Common's maintenance fund came from the murdered man's son.
    3 MIN · 227 M
11. Bad Ends
    The best old source on the 'hanging tree' is a surgeon's pamphlet, and he meant hanging in effigy.
    4 MIN · 253 M
12. The 1852 Hunt
    Before it took a single real alarm, Boston's fire telegraph rang the city's bells from New York.
    4 MIN · 258 M
13. Banned in Boston
    The Censors' Last Address
    4 MIN · 274 M
14. Bad Ends
    The stone people call Hester Prynne's may belong to a woman the court found 'greatly negligent' in her child's death.
    4 MIN · 291 M
15. Under Boston
    The subway builders listed this graveyard as one of seven places the first subway breathed.
    4 MIN · 295 M
16. The 1852 Hunt
    The Great Fire was stopped at Washington and Milk, a short distance from Old South's door.
    5 MIN · 357 M
17. 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.
    5 MIN · 360 M
18. 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.'
    5 MIN · 383 M
19. 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.
    6 MIN · 412 M
20. Bad Ends
    In 1895 the subway dig moved about 910 people. The expense line reads 'Care of human remains,' $202.00.
    6 MIN · 418 M
21. Under Boston
    The Kettle That Was Measured by the City
    6 MIN · 418 M
22. 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.
    6 MIN · 418 M
23. Under Boston
    The Centennial Car
    6 MIN · 418 M
24. The 1852 Hunt
    The Great Fire started in a basement on this corner, and no photograph of it burning is known to exist.
    6 MIN · 427 M
25. The 1852 Hunt
    In November 1872, Boston's fire engines were pulled by men, because the horses were sick.
    6 MIN · 433 M
26. Banned in Boston
    When Scollay Square was razed, its trade moved here, and in November 1974 Boston made it official.
    6 MIN · 456 M
27. The 1852 Hunt
    Every address in Boston is filed under a fire alarm box, a bit like a zip code.
    6 MIN · 463 M
28. Under Boston
    A Station in the Cellar
    6 MIN · 465 M
29. Shot Here
    Thomas Crown came home to a house Bulfinch built for a future mayor.
    7 MIN · 480 M
30. Shot Here
    In 1967 a film crew staged a robbery at a real Boston bank.
    7 MIN · 507 M
31. 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.
    7 MIN · 511 M
32. Under Boston
    From December 1897, Boston fired its mail under these streets in steel cans of compressed air.
    7 MIN · 517 M
33. 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.
    7 MIN · 544 M
34. 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.
    7 MIN · 553 M
35. Under Boston
    Seven floors of parked cars under this lawn pay for the flowers on top.
    8 MIN · 561 M

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