Bowdoin Square (Boston)

Bowdoin Square (established 1788) in Boston, Massachusetts was located in the West End. In the 18th and 19th centuries it featured residential houses, leafy trees, a church, hotel, theatre and other buildings. Among the notables who have lived in the square: physician Thomas Bulfinch; merchant Kirk Boott; and mayor Theodore Lyman. The urban renewal project in the West End in the 1950s removed Green Street and Chardon Street, which formerly ran into the square, and renamed some existing streets; it is now a traffic intersection at Cambridge Street, Bowdoin Street, and New Chardon Street.

Bowdoin Square is served by the MBTA Blue Line station Bowdoin.

Some of the features of Bowdoin Square in its heyday included:

House built by Thomas Bulfinch II, after 1722. His grandson Charles Bulfinch was born here

Kirk Boott house, built 1804

Samuel Parkman house, built c. 1816

Daniel Webster, 1850 ("A great crowd had collected ... and on his appearance in a barouche, he was enthusiastically cheered."

Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, built 1840

Railroad Jubilee, 1854

U.S. Court House, Bowdoin Square, c. 1856; engraving by Samuel Smith Kilburn, Ballou's Pictorial

Detail of 1883 map of Boston, showing Bowdoin Square at intersection of Green, Chardon, Court, Bowdoin and Cambridge Streets

1883

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