Historical Marker

Fuller Block

Historical marker location:
1537 Main Street, Springfield, Massachusetts
( Marker is on Main Street west of Bridge Street, on the right when traveling west.)

1531-1545 Main Street. Built 1887 • Renovated 1986.

In 1837, Harvard University held a "prostitute parade" where students marched through Boston with prostitutes to protest a law that would have made it illegal to hire women for "immoral purposes."