Place · square · 1802

Brown Square

A square laid out by 1803 beside City Hall and named for the merchant Moses Brown (1742–1827). The 1893 statue of William Lloyd Garrison stands in it, and war memorials line its Green Street end.

Laid out: 1802
MACRIS: NWB.911 ↗
On the walk: Green Street, Brown Square and Pleasant Street

Then & now

Brown Square, the Garrison statue and the Brown Square Hotel: an old photograph set into today's view — Brown Square, the Garrison statue and the Brown Square HotelBiff Bouse, with an old photograph (source not yet recorded)

More photographs, old views and ephemera for this place are still to come.

Sources

Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, NWB.911 (square) and NWB.936 (Garrison statue)