Titcomb Street & Brown Sq.
MACRIS NWB.O · area form, 1973
Brown Square lies between Green Street and Titcomb Street. The survey says it was laid out by Moses Brown, a merchant who imported molasses and distilled rum, and who built a three-story brick house on its west side. That building later became a boarding house, then the Brown Square Hotel in 1884, and finally the Garrison Inn.
City Hall on the square was finished in 1851, and a Baptist meeting house went up on the corner of Green Street in 1847. In 1893 a statue of William Lloyd Garrison by David M. French was placed on the green, which the form notes was used for public ceremonies for about 125 years.
On Titcomb Street, land for a meeting house was sold on 6 April 1768. Its brick replacement is the Central Congregational Church. A wooden house at the corner of Titcomb and Merrimac Streets, fitted up as a hotel in 1840, burned in 1972.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
