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Bowdoin Square (Boston)

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West End, Boston
BowdoinSquare ca1880 Boston
BowdoinSquare ca1880 Boston

Bowdoin Square (established 1788) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 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.

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Bowdoin Square (Boston)
Norman Herr Way, Boston Downtown

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Norman Herr Way
02133 Boston, Downtown
Massachusetts, United States
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