Near the T · 29 stops · 5 packs

Near State

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

1. Under Boston
   The Kettle That Was Measured by the City
   2 MIN · 136 M
2. Shot Here
   In 1967 a film crew staged a robbery at a real Boston bank.
   2 MIN · 145 M
3. 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.
   3 MIN · 163 M
4. 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.
   3 MIN · 174 M
5. Under Boston
   The subway builders listed this graveyard as one of seven places the first subway breathed.
   3 MIN · 201 M
6. 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 · 211 M
7. Shot Here
   Liberty Square was Free City in 2019 and old New York in 2022.
   3 MIN · 224 M
8. Under Boston
   From December 1897, Boston fired its mail under these streets in steel cans of compressed air.
   3 MIN · 238 M
9. Shot Here
   For nineteen years this marketplace had a copy of a TV set of a Boston bar.
   4 MIN · 242 M
10. The 1852 Hunt
    Before it took a single real alarm, Boston's fire telegraph rang the city's bells from New York.
    4 MIN · 243 M
11. The 1852 Hunt
    The Great Fire was stopped at Washington and Milk, a short distance from Old South's door.
    4 MIN · 257 M
12. The 1852 Hunt
    Every address in Boston is filed under a fire alarm box, a bit like a zip code.
    4 MIN · 262 M
13. The 1852 Hunt
    The City's public map of its fire alarm boxes has a dot in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
    4 MIN · 283 M
14. 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 · 310 M
15. Under Boston
    The building with the farmers' market is deeper underground than it is tall.
    4 MIN · 316 M
16. Under Boston
    Seven floors of parked cars under this lawn pay for the flowers on top.
    5 MIN · 330 M
17. 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.
    5 MIN · 336 M
18. Shot Here
    Colin Sullivan's penthouse in The Departed is a law library.
    5 MIN · 390 M
19. The 1852 Hunt
    In November 1872, Boston's fire engines were pulled by men, because the horses were sick.
    6 MIN · 442 M
20. Bad Ends
    The plinth says she was hanged on the Common. A judge's diary points a mile south.
    6 MIN · 446 M
21. 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 · 448 M
22. The 1852 Hunt
    The first boxes had a crank, and people turned it according to how excited they were.
    6 MIN · 454 M
23. The 1852 Hunt
    Boston's first keyless alarm box went in on this corner in 1881.
    7 MIN · 488 M
24. 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 · 488 M
25. Shot Here
    Most of Glory's 1860s Boston was Savannah. This memorial is the real part.
    7 MIN · 512 M
26. 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 · 528 M
27. The 1852 Hunt
    The Great Fire started in a basement on this corner, and no photograph of it burning is known to exist.
    8 MIN · 582 M
28. Banned in Boston
    The Censors' Last Address
    8 MIN · 590 M
29. Shot Here
    The Departed's police headquarters was built for the state's employment office.
    8 MIN · 596 M

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