Custom House Tower
Boston’s first skyscraper — a 496-foot campanile (1915) stacked by the federal government on a 1847 Greek Revival base, flouting the city’s height limit because Washington didn’t have to ask.
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1630: Boston’s oldest burying ground (1630) — John Winthrop lies here, alongside Mary Chilton, the first woman ashore from the Mayflower.
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Human recommendations
What this meant before
- Established
- 1915
- Address
- 3 McKinley Sq, Boston
- Graph connections
- 1
In the graph 1 relationships — first-class data, not links
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Custom House Tower is linked, through the graph, to Downtown & Financial District — neighborhood, 6 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
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