The Old State House is a historic building at 206 Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Completed in 1713, it is the city's oldest extant public building, hosting the judicial, le
Looking southwest in 2013
Marker just outside the building commemorating the Boston Massacre, which occurred nearby
This engraving by Paul Revere, portraying the Boston Massacre, shows the Old State House sitting prominently behind the action.
Triumphal arch, built in 1789 in preparation for Washington's visit to the city
The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in the prelude to the American Revolution in Boston, in what was then the colony of the
Old State House (Boston)
…across Congress Street). The Old Corner Bookstore is also nearby to the south. Just east of the building is a cobblestone memorial marker for the 1770 Boston Massacre, which took place nearby. Dating from c. 1886, the marker formerly occupied a traffic island at State and Devonshire streets. The marker was moved in…
Old State House in Boston, the capital of the Province of Massachusetts during the colonial era from 1713 to 1776; the cobblestone circle is labeled "Site of the Boston Massacre", but the Boston Massacre occurred nearby on what now is a busy Boston street.
A variation of Paul Revere's famous engraving, produced just prior to the American Civil War, which emphasizes Crispus Attucks, the black man in the center who became an important symbol for abolitionists.
A grave marker for the Granary Burying Ground in Boston, where those killed in the Boston Massacre were buried