Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company building

Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Location Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°21′8″N 71°3′51″W / 42.35222°N 71.06417°W / 42.35222; -71.06417Coordinates: 42°21′8″N 71°3′51″W / 42.35222°N 71.06417°W / 42.35222; -71.06417
Built 1906
Architect Winslow & Bigelow; Bigelow & Wadsworth
Architectural style Beaux Arts
MPS Boston Theatre MRA
NRHP reference # 80000453[1]
Added to NRHP December 9, 1980

The Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company is a historic utility company building at 25–39 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

The seven-story Beaux Arts building was constructed in 1906 to a design by Winslow & Bigelow and enlarged in 1922 to a design by Bigelow & Wadsworth. It served as the headquarters of the Boston Edison Illuminating Company until the 1950s. It is an early skyscraper with Beaux Arts detailing and made of limestone.[2]

In 1980 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places;[1] in 1984 it was purchased to become the home of Saint Francis House.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
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