Boston 400 atlas
Building / Landmark · 1915 · Boston

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.

Why it matters

Part of the connected record of this place — 1 relationship link it into the wider graph, each one a thread worth pulling.

Open the full civic recordCurrent pulse, routes, recommendations, and memory
Living object

Now, then, future

Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.

Current modegolden hour
Historical echoKing’s Chapel Burying Ground
Connected eventAmerica’s 250th — July 4, 2026
Pulse

How it feels right now

Current energylively
Best nowone good detour
Best timegolden hour
serendipitousDowntown & Financial District
Rain scoregood

Indoor escapes within a few blocks.

Laptop friendlinesslow

Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.

Student presencehigh

How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.

Tourist pressurelow

Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.

Historic densitylight

Older records and historical edges around this object.

Serendipityhigh

Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.

Turn this into a walk

Routes with a point of view

What should I see next?

Chosen moves from here

The editor's hand

Human recommendations

Civic memory

What this meant before

Established
1915
Address
3 McKinley Sq, Boston
Graph connections
1
Plan your visit

In the graph 1 relationships — first-class data, not links

Explore Custom House Tower in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →

Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk

An unexpected connection

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.

Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess

One record, 1 framing cross-property publishing — never duplicated

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How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it

Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
Independent corroboration1 source
Human-reviewedEditorially verified
Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
Record completeness100% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
Boston Landmarks Commission Primary / institutional
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density13
1 connection
Record coverage84
metadata completeness
Graph authority23
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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