Tremont Street

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Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tremont Street begins at

The name (/ˈtrɛmɒnt/, pronounced TREH-mont) is a variation of one of the original appellations of the city: "Trimountaine", a reference to a hill that formerly had three peaks. Beacon Hill, with its single peak, is all that remains of the Trimountain. Much of the Trimountain was removed, and the earth used as fill to expand the Shawmut Peninsula. The two smaller peaks, Cotton Hill (or Pemberton Hill, at what is now Pemberton Square) and Mt. Whoredom (or Mt. Vernon, formerly at the location of the modern-day Louisburg Square) no longer exist.^[1] The central peak, Sentry Hill, now called Beacon Hill, is smaller than the original peak, which reached approximately to the height of the top of the State House.

A British military map of Boston from 1775, prepared by a Lieut. Sir Thomas Hyde Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, shows Beacon Hill, Mount Whoredom, and another unnamed hill all just above Beacon Street. There is a small street on the northeast corner of Boston Common called "Treamount Street" from School Street to Hanover Street, the precursor of modern Tremont Street, running north from what was then called Common Street (modern Tremont Street alongside the eastern border of Boston Common).^[2]

Points of interest

Sites of interest along Tremont Street, from northeast to southwest, include:

• Government Center
• King's Chapel
• Tremont Temple
• Granary Burying Ground
• Suffolk University Law School
• Park Street Church
• Boston Common
• Emerson College
• Masonic Grand Lodge
• Boston Theater District
• Wang Center for the Performing Arts
• Boston Center for the Arts
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica

Transportation

The

The Green Line stops in three places under Tremont Street:

• Government Center
• Park Street
• Boylston

Gallery

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  Intersection of Tremont and School Street (Boston Common at upper left), 1722
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  1775 map
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  Tremont St., 1798
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  Faneuil mansion, c. 19th century
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  Tremont St., c. 1843, by Philip Harry
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  Gleason's Publishing Hall, corner of Tremont and Bromfield St., 1851
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  Advertisement for Chas. E. Brewster's Natural History Store, 1861
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  Horticultural Hall, 19th century, photo by John P. Soule
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  Tremont St., 1891
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  Intersection of Tremont St., Pleasant St., and Shawmut Ave., 1896

See also

• Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston

References

Notes

Further reading

• "Tremont Street". Gleasons Pictorial. 5. Boston, Mass. 1853.
• Views of Tremont Street, Boston. Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, 1894.
• City of Boston, Landmarks Commission. Connolly's Bar Study Report, 1997

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tremont Street.

• "Tremont Street in the Rain, Boston, Massachusetts, undated"^{[permanent dead link]}. Historic New England. Photographer: Unknown
• https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007661063
• https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007661071
• Flickr. Photo of elevated railroad on Tremont St. at Granary, c. early 20th century. Includes view of Horticultural Hall. Courtesy of Bostonian Society.