201-211 Hanover St.
90-102 Cross St.
110-124 North st.

Louisa K.

These buildings on Cross, North and Hanover streets saw a variety of businesses until the 1933 widening of Cross st. for the Sumner Tunnel entrance. Learn about the fascinating stories of these North End businesses and where they went when the buildings were taken down. The maps below show how despite changing businesses and owners, the brick buildings themselves remained the same until the 1930s.

1867

1882

1928

1938

Click on the street names below to learn more.

North St.

Grocery store, Importer of tin plates and metals, Boston's first Mechanical Refrigerating Company

Hanover Street

Grocery, Jewelry and Clothing stores

Cross St.

Widening of Cross St. and Construction of Sumner Tunnel

References:

The Boston Pictorial Archive, North End. Boston Public Library. https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/sets/72157625130840523/
National Diagram Bureau, Insurance maps of Boston volume one (1882). Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.
National Diagram Bureau, Insurance maps of Boston volume one (1867). Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.
G.W. Bromley & Co., Atlas of the city of Boston : city proper (1928). Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.
G.W. Bromley & Co., Atlas of the city of Boston : city proper (1938). Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.
Boston (Mass.). "124 North Street." Photograph. May 20, 1930. Digital Commonwealth, https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:h415rw78n.
Boston (Mass.). "94 Cross Street and 96 - 100 Cross Street." Photograph. May 22, 1930. Digital Commonwealth, https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:h415s548r

201-211 Hanover St. 90-102 Cross St. 110-124 North st.