Boston Harbor Waterfront History

Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park is defined by a long, wooden, arched trellis that runs through the green space, often draped in wisteria vines and illuminated by lights during the holiday season. Stretching four and a half acres along…

Long Wharf extends into Boston Harbor as a stone-paved pier, recognizable by its position at the end of State Street and its line of historic granite and brick buildings. Constructed between seventeen ten and seventeen twenty-one by…

The New England Aquarium occupies a prominent brutalist concrete building on Central Wharf, its heavy, textured facade marking a stark departure from the maritime warehouses that once defined this stretch of the shoreline. Opened on June…

Rowes Wharf is defined by its massive, copper-domed central archway, which spans the public plaza and frames a clear view between the city and the harbor. Completed in nineteen eighty-seven, this sixteen-story structure serves as a…

On December sixteenth, seventeen seventy-three, a group of colonists boarded the ships Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver at Griffin’s Wharf to protest taxation without representation. They broke open three hundred and forty-two chests of East…

The Northern Avenue Bridge is a six hundred and forty foot long, triple-barreled swing bridge of riveted steel that spans the Fort Point Channel. Designed by Boston city engineer William Jackson, it features three truss spans and was built…

Fan Pier Park is defined by a wide cobblestone and brick promenade that stretches along the edge of the Boston Harbor. It forms part of the larger HarborWalk, a public pathway that skirts the shoreline. The park itself is a collection of…