{"nrhp_refnum":"83000607","name":"Newspaper Row","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"322-328 Washington St., 5-23 Milk St., and 11 Hawley St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.35678997500003,"lon":-71.05856815599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Communications"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of four contiguous commercial buildings on Washington, Milk and Hawley Streets in downtown Boston, built in 1873-1874 after the Great Fire of 1872. They are granite-faced or cast-iron fronted and four to six stories tall.","why_significant":"The row is directly tied to the nineteenth-century offices of two influential Boston dailies, the Transcript and the Post, and is the only surviving part of the city's former newspaper publishing district. All four buildings were designed by major Boston architects and show the quality of post-Fire commercial architecture. The nomination cites criteria A, B and C.","narrative":"Newspaper Row is a cluster of four adjoining commercial buildings in downtown Boston, fronting Washington, Milk and Hawley Streets. All were built in 1873-1874 as the city rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1872. The Transcript Building, designed by Gridley J.F. Bryant and Louis Rogers, is a granite French Second Empire block that housed the Boston Evening Transcript. Next to it, the cast-iron fronted Post Building by Peabody and Stearns mixes Victorian Gothic, Eastlake and Neo Grec details and occupies the reputed birthplace site of Benjamin Franklin. Two granite buildings by N.J. Bradlee and Walter T. Winslow complete the group and echo the scale and materials of their neighbors. During the late nineteenth century, nearly all of Boston's major dailies were published along this stretch of Washington Street. These buildings are all that remain of that publishing district. Together they show the stylistic variety of Boston's post-Fire commercial architecture.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific dates 1873 and 1874)","architect_builder":"N.J. Bradlee, Gridley J.F. Bryant, Peabody & Stearns","architectural_style":"French Second Empire (Transcript Building); Victorian Gothic with Eastlake and Neo Grec elements (Post Building); Neo Grec (Bradlee buildings)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Described as in good to excellent condition and in commercial use as offices, retail and banking; the Transcript and Post Buildings were undergoing major rehabilitation at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.456605-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/7967/63796767/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000607.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000607/05c04420d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000607/05c04420d1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Detroit Publishing Co.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newspaper_Row_ca_1906.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Publishing Co.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newspaper_Row_ca_1906.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796767","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_Row_(Boston)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715773"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/newspaper-row-83000607/"}