Bowdoin Square (Boston)

Bowdoin Square (established 1788) in Boston, Massachusetts was located in the West End.

In the 18th and 19th centuries it featured residential houses, leafy trees, a church, hotel, theatre and other buildings.

Among the notables who have lived in the square: physician Thomas Bulfinch; merchant Kirk Boott;[1][2] and mayor Theodore Lyman.

[4][5] Bowdoin Square is served by the MBTA Blue Line station Bowdoin.

Some of the features of Bowdoin Square in its heyday included:

Bowdoin Square, Boston, c. 1880