The Bedford Building

The Bedford Building stands out for its polychromatic exterior, featuring distinct horizontal bands of red New Brunswick granite, white Tuckahoe marble, and terra-cotta panels. Built in eighteen seventy-five, the structure occupies a triangular site known as Church Green, where Lincoln, Summer, and Bedford Streets intersect. Architects Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears designed the building in the Venetian Gothic style, a movement championed by the critic John Ruskin. Its most recognizable feature is a five-story tower at the northeast corner, which houses a glazed tile clock.