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 Louisburg Square - Boston, MA Posted by:  NorStar
N 42° 21.488 W 071° 04.123
19T E 329634 N 4691613
Loiusburg Square, a private park surrounded by multi-story brownstones, is the epitome of Beacon Hill style where many well known people had lived by or near.
Waymark Code: WMF3N5
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/17/2012
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In Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood is Loiuisburg Square, which is an area where streets and brownstones surround a fenced common area.
The American Guide Series for Massachusetts has the following for this location:
FOOT TOUR 1 (Back Bay and Beacon Hill) - 3 m.
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22. Louisburg Square, looking much like some square in London's Mayfair, is the epitome of Beacon Hill style. Noted residents have included William Dean Howells, Louisa May Alcott, and her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, Jenny Lind, and Minnie Maddern Fiske. The houses, inhabited by elderly and ultra-conservative families, are large three- or four-story brick dwellings, mostly with bow-fronts and plain doorways, the whole in synchronous monotone. The central green, enclosed by an iron fence with no gate, belongs to the proprietors of the Square. The small statue of Aristedes the Just, at the south end, and that of Columbus at the north, have been adopted affectionately by the residents through many years of custom, but when their donor, Joseph Iasigi, a wealthy Greek living at No. 3, included also a fountain, it was hastily removed.
At Cristmas each year the square echoes with Christmas carols, sung by trained voices usually selected from musical groups with sufficient social prestige to be asked to contribute carolers. Bellringing and the keeping of open house are additional features of the program.
- American Guide Series: Massachusetts - A Guide to Its Peoples and Places, p. 145 and 151-2.
The Square today probably looks close to how it appeared when the book was published. The neighborhood is still considered one of the most exclusive. Senator John Kerry lives there. One of the units sold for over $10,000,000! The green is still there (the gate is hard to locate but I found the key lock on the west side). The statues on either end are still there (no sign of a fountain).
Other Source:
Iwalkedaudiotours.com (Boston's Louisburg Square):
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Book: Massachusetts
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 145 and 151-2
Year Originally Published: 1938
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