Downtown Crossing

January 27, 2008

Washington Street, Downtown Crossing, Boston

We had a few inches of snow today. I was downtown this afternoon and shot this picture of Washington Street. To the left is the Old South Meeting House, built in 1729. It is well-known as the organizing spot for the participants of the Boston Tea Party on December 17, 1773. This building is one of the oldest in this area, mainly due to the valiant efforts of the firefighters that saved the building from destruction during Boston's Great Fire of 1872, which destroyed over 750 buildings and flattened 65 acres of the city.