Haymarket Square

Haymarket Square

My specific section of Endicott Street lies a few hundred feet from Haymarket Square, the oldest public market in Boston!

rams in the Canal Street Incline, between 1898 when the incline opened, and 1901 when the Main Line Elevated was added. The cars include a Lynn and Boston Street Railway car (second track form left), BERy car #1067 bound for Columbus Avenue, and a BERy car bound for Grove Hall and Dorchester.
Haymarket square where three streets come together, brick buildings , horse-drawn carriages. Haymarket Square & Custom House from Haymarket Square Relief Hospital. September 22, 1929.

Haymarket Square was developed over 300 years ago in Boston's north end. It was an open-air market specifically for selling things from produce to clothing to having factories like the cigar factory on the corner of Stillman and Endicott.

Store Fronts 

40s era cars parked in from of brick shop fronts. Hanover Street looking from Blackstone to Cross Street in the late 1940’s (Boston City Archives)

For many of the people living in my parcel, the community was based around Haymarket Square. Haymarket square consisted at the time of many store fronts including drug stores, factories, groceries, etc. Haymarket was especially known for the produce and meat that was sold there. Many of the stores were wholesalers that would sell to the storefronts on Market Street and Endicott.

Train Station

For a majority of the North End during this time period, many people used this once station and now relief station as their primary form of transportation. For people living on Endicott street, this station was basically in their backyard. Having such an important piece of infrastructure in one of the bigger communities in Boston at the time, the train station and rails around it made this north-end district a hub.

newspaper article mentiong that Haymarket Square Station was torn down in 1897 and a hospital was erected on the site in 1932
Haymarket Square Station
Atlasscope map from 1938 representing the close proximity my parcel is to the central part of Haymarket Square.

Atlasscope map from 1938 representing the close proximity my parcel is to the central part of Haymarket Square.

Haymarket Square after the Central Artery was established (Grant)

Haymarket Square after the Central Artery was established (Grant)

Work CITED

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Grant, Spencer. Central Artery traffic and Haymarket Square, Boston. 1972. Web. 12 Dec 2022. <https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bk128b302>.

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