Boston
Boston's Government Center
Urban renewal project of early 1960s, the design and construction
firms of Gerhad Kallmann and Michael McKinnell were selected in
an open competition. The area of Government Center in 1911. It was known as Scollay Square, named for William Scollay, a friend of Charles Bulfinch. A messy place of working class apartments, houses, winding streets, and internationally famous `vulgar' entertainments. Among others, sailors and merchants from around the world would attend theaters, billiards halls, and burlesque houses here. Courtesy of Bostonian Society.
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