Flour and Grain Exchange Building
Coordinates: 42°21′30.2″N 71°3′9.1″W / 42.358389°N 71.052528°W
The Flour and Grain Exchange Building is a 19th century office building in Boston. Located at 177 Milk Street in the Custom House District, at the edge of the Financial District near the waterfront, it is distinguished by the large black slate conical roof at its western end. It is also called just the Grain Exchange Building and sometimes the Boston Chamber of Commerce Building.
The Flour and Grain Exchange Building was built in 1892 for its original occupant, the Boston Chamber of Commerce on land donated for that purpose by Henry Melville Whitney. It was designed by the firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge (now Shepley Bulfinch), founded by the successors of Henry Hobson Richardson, and in the Romanesque Revival style often associated with Richardson. The building exterior is of pink Milford granite.
The Flour and Grain Exchange Building is seven stories tall, with two additional stories in a cylindrical turret at the west end. The ornate facade features three-storey roundheaded windows at the middle floors. Triangular attic dormers topped by crocket finials at the turret give a crown-like aspect to the conical roof.
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