National Register of Historic Places
Boston Police Station Number One-Traffic Tunnel Administration Building
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
The record
- Listed
- March 3, 2015
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 128, 150 North & 130 -140 Richmond St., Boston
- County
- Suffolk
- State
- Massachusetts
- Contributing resources
- 2 buildings, 2 objects
- Coordinates
- 42.36275, -71.05471
- Reference number
- 15000048
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The story
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The Boston Police Station Number One-Traffic Tunnel Administration Building is a two-building complex in Boston, Suffolk County, listed in the National Register in 2015. It was built in 1931 and 1932 in the Classical Revival style, designed by the John M. Gray Co., with L. B. Howe as engineer.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture, industry and politics/government, and its period of significance runs from 1931, when construction began, to 1964, when Boston's police stations began consolidating.
Physical character
The building has brick walls on granite foundations with cast-stone trim, four double-height cast-stone Ionic columns, and a gold-domed cupola. Inside, original marble floors, wainscoting and door surrounds survive alongside carved wood handrails and exposed waffle ceilings, and a 2011-2013 rehabilitation for the North Bennet Street School replaced the windows and repaired the brick exterior.
Historical context
The Boston Printing Department used the building as its printing plant from 1931 to 2010, and Police Station Number One operated there from 1932 to 1968. The building served as the city's Traffic Tunnel Administration, associated with the Sumner Tunnel, until that function passed to the Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1949; the North Bennet Street School bought the building in 2012.