Built 1898 Opened 1898 | NRHP Reference # 80000463 Area 8,900 m² Added to NRHP 2 December 1980 | |
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Architectural style Colonial Revival architecture Similar Atlantic Wharf, Boston Harbor, Deer Island Light, Faneuil Hall, The First Church of Christ - Sc | ||
The Russia Wharf Buildings are a cluster of three stylistically similar commercial buildings at 518-540 Atlantic Avenue, 270 Congress Street and 276-290 Congress Street in Boston, Massachusetts. They are built on the original site of Russia Wharf, near where the Boston Tea Party took place in 1773. The wharf was the center of Boston's trade with Russia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The wharf's buildings were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872, and the land area was extended by building over the wharf and filling the spaces surrounding it. The three Renaissance Revival buildings were designed by Peabody and Stearns and built in 1897.
The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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