Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Abbotsford
Adams-Nervine Asylum
African Meetinghouse
All Saints' Church
Allston Congregational Church
Ames Building
Appleton, Nathan, Residence
Arlington Street Church
Armory of the First Corps of Cadets
Arnold Arboretum
Ascension-Caproni Historic District
Austin, Francis B., House
Ayer, Frederick, Mansion
Back Bay Historic District
Baker Congregational Church
Baker, Sarah J., School
Beach-Knapp District
Beacon Hill Historic District
Bedford Building
Bellevue Standpipe
Bellingham Square Historic District
Bellingham-Cary House
Benedict Fenwick School
Benjamin Silverman Apartments
Bennington Street Burying Ground
Berger Factory
Bigelow School
Blackstone Block Historic District
Blake and Amory Building
Blake, James, House
Boston African American National Historic Site
Boston Athenaeum
Boston Common
Boston Common and Public Garden
Boston Consumptives Hospital
Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Boston Fish Pier Historic District
Boston Light
Boston National Historical Park
Boston National Historical Park
Boston Naval Shipyard
Boston Police Station Number One-Traffic Tunnel Administration Building
Boston Public Garden
Boston Public Library
Boston Transit Commission Building
Boston Young Men's Christian Association
Boston Young Men's Christian Union
Bowditch School
Boylston Building
Brighton Center Historic District
Brighton Evangelical Congregational Church
Brook Farm
Building at 138-142 Portland Street
Buildings at 825-829 Blue Hill Avenue
Bulfinch Triangle Historic District
Bunker Hill Monument
Bunker Hill School
Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex
Cartoof & Sherman Apartments
Cathedral of St. George Historic District
Central Congregational Church
Charles Playhouse
Charles River Reservation (Speedway)-Upper Basin Headquarters
Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church
Charlestown Heights
Chelsea Garden Cemetery
Chelsea Square Historic District
Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District
Christ Church
Church Green Buildings Historic District
Church of Christ
Clapp Houses
Codman Building
Codman Square District
Collins Building
Columbia Road-Bellevue Street Historic District
Columbia Road-Devon Street Historic District
Columbia Road-Strathcona Road Historic District
Commonwealth Pier Five
Compton Building
Congregation Adath Jeshurun
Congregation Agudath Shalom
Congress Street Fire Station
Copp's Hill Burial Ground
Copp's Hill Terrace
Crawford Street Historic District
Crowninshield House
Custom House District
Cyclorama Building
Davidson, Sarah, Apartment Block
Dearborn School
Dill Building
Dillaway School
Dimock Community Health Center Complex
District 13 Police Station
Dorchester Heights Historic District
Dorchester Heights National Historic Site
Dorchester North Burying Ground
Dorchester Park
Dorchester Pottery Works
Dorchester South Burying Ground
Dorchester Temple Baptist Church
Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District
Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District (Boundary Increase)
Douglass, Frederick, Square Historic District
Downtown Chelsea Residential Historic District
Dudley Station Historic District
Eagle Hill Historic District
East Boston High School, Old
Egleston Substation
Eliot Burying Ground
Eliot Congregational Church
Eliot Hall
Elm Hill Park Historic District
Engine House No. 34
Esmond Street Historic District
Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital
Evergreen Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery (Additional Documentation)
Faneuil Hall
Faneuil, Peter, School
Fenway Park
Fenway Studios
Fenway-Boylston Street District
Fields Corner Municipal Building
Filene's Department Store
First Baptist Church
First Church of Jamaica Plain
First Congregational Church of Hyde Park
Forest Hills Cemetery
Fort Banks Mortar Battery
Fort Independence
Fort Point Channel Historic District
Fort Warren
Fowler-Clark-Epstein Farmstead
Fox, I.J., Building
Frances and Isabella Apartments
Francis Street-Fenwood Road Historic District
Fulton-Commercial Streets District
Fulton-Commercial Streets Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, Museum
Garrison, William Lloyd, House
Garrison, William Lloyd, School
Gibson House
Goldsmith Block
Goodwin, Ozias, House
Governor Shirley Square Historic District
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England
Greenville Street Historic District
Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church
Gridley Street Historic District
Haffenreffer Brewery
Hale, Edward Everett, House
Harding, Chester, House
Harrison Square Historic District
Harriswood Crescent
Harvard Avenue Fire Station
Harvard Avenue Historic District
Harvard Stadium
Haskell, Edward H., Home for Nurses
Hayden Building
Headquarters House
Hibernian Hall
Highland Spring Brewery Bottling and Storage Buildings
Home for Aged Couples
Hoosac Stores 1 & 2-Hoosac Stores 3
House at 1 Bay Street
House at 17 Cranston Street
Howe, Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward, House
Hoxie, Timothy, House
Immaculate Conception Rectory
International Trust Company Building
Intervale Street-Blue Hill Avenue Historic District
Intervale Street-Columbia Road Historic District
John Adams Courthouse
John Eliot Square District
Joshua Bates School
Kimball, C. Henry, House
King's Chapel
Kittredge, Alvah, House
Lawrence Avenue Historic District
Lawrence Model Lodging Houses
Leather District
Liberty Tree District
Locke-Ober Restaurant
Long Island Head Light
Long Wharf and Customhouse Block
Loring, Harrison, House
Loring-Greenough House
Lower Roxbury Historic District
LUNA (tugboat)
Lyman, Theodore, School
Malcolm X-Ella Little Collins House
Mariner's House
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Historical Society Building
Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Massachusetts School of Art
Massachusetts Statehouse
McKay, Donald, House
Metropolitan Theatre
Mission Hill Triangle Historic District
Monument Square Historic District
Monument Square Historic District
Moreland Street Historic District
Morton Street, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Mount Hope Cemetery
Mount Pleasant Historic District
Nathan Warnick Apartments
Naval Hospital Boston Historic District
Nazing Court Apartments
Nell, William C., House
Neponset Valley Parkway, Metorpolitan Park System of Greater Boston
New England Conservatory of Music
New Riding Club
Newspaper Row
Newton, Edward B., School
Nix's Mate Daybeacon
North Terminal Garage
Oak Square School
Ohabei Shalom Cemetery
Old City Hall
Old Corner Bookstore
Old Harbor Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Old North Church
Old South Church in Boston
Old South Meetinghouse
Old State House
Old West Church
Otis, (First) Harrison Gray, House
Otis, (Second) Harrison Gray, House
Paine Furniture Building
Park Street District
Parkman, Francis, House
Peabody, The
Phipps Street Burying Ground
Piano Row District
Pierce House
Pierce-Hichborn House
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Publicity Building
Quincy Grammar School
Quincy Market
Revere Beach Reservation
Revere Beach Reservation Historic District
Revere City Hall and Police Station
Revere, Paul, House
Richards, Ellen H. Swallow, House
Richardson Block
Riviera, The
Ronan, Mary, T., School
ROSEWAY (schooner)
Roslindale Baptist Church
Roslindale Congregational Church
Roslindale Substation
Roughan Hall
Roxbury High Fort
Roxbury Highlands Historic District
Roxbury Presbyterian Church
Rumney Marsh Burying Ground
Russia Wharf Buildings
Saint Augustine Chapel and Cemetery
Saint Mark's Episcopal Church
Samuel Edelman Apartments
Savin Hill Historic District
Sears Roebuck and Company Mail Order Store
Sears' Crescent and Sears' Block
Sears, David, House
Second Brazer Building
Second Church in Boston
Sherman Apartments Historic District
Shirley-Eustis House
Shubert, Sam S., Theatre
Slade Spice Mill
South Boston Boat Clubs Historic District
South End District
South End District (Boundary Increase)
South Station Headhouse
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Complex
St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Church
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
St. Paul's Church
St. Stephen's Church
Stearns, R. H., House
Stony Brook Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Great Boston MPS
Students House
Suffolk County Jail
Sumner Hill Historic District
Sumner, Charles, House
Symphony and Horticultural Halls
Symphony Hall
Temple Place Historic District
Terminal Storage Warehouse District
Textile District
Thane Street Historic District
Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church
Town Hill District
Tremont Street Subway
Trinity Church
Trinity Neighborhood House
Trinity Rectory
Trotter, William Monroe, House
Truman Parkway-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
U.S.S. CONSTITUTION
Union Oyster House
Union Wharf
United Shoe Machinery Corporation Building
United State Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Building
Upham's Corner Market
US Post Office Garage
USS CASSIN YOUNG (destroyer)
Vermont Building
VFW Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Walton and Roslin Halls
Washington Street Theatre District
West Street District
Westerly Burial Ground
Wigglesworth Building
Wilbur Theatre
Winthrop Building
Winthrop Center/Metcalf Square Historic District
Winthrop Parkway, Metropolitan Parkway System of Greater Boston
Winthrop Shore Dr., Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Winthrop, Deane, House
Wirth, Jacob, Buildings
Woodbourne Historic District
Youth's Companion Building
YWCA Boston
1935
20 Pinckney Street
40-42 Mt. Vernon Street
45 Milk Street
54th Infantry - 55th Infantry - 5th Cavalry
66 Mt. Vernon Street
87 Mt. Vernon Street
94 Charles Street Building
A New View of an Old Ship
A Riot, the Massacre, and the Tea Party
Abraham Shapiro
African Americans at Copps Hill
African Meeting House
American Redoubts
American Soldiers Killed June 17, 1775
Anne Whitney
Arrival of the Frigate Arbella
Bakery
Beacon Hill
Beginning of Jordan Marsh
Bellingham-Cary Mansion
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Birthplace of Charles Sumner
Birthplace of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Birthplace of the Telephone
Bleacher Bar
Boston Athenaeum
Boston Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian)
Boston Civil War Memorial
Boston Common
Boston Irish Famine Memorial
Boston Molasses Flood
Boston Naval Shipyard
Boston Public Latin School
Boston Spanish American War Memorial
Boston Transcript Building
Boston Women's Memorial
Boston Young Men's Christian Union
Boston, the Navy Yard, and the War of 1812
Breeds Hill
Bunch of Grapes Tavern
Bunker Hill Burying Ground
Bunker Hill Monument
Captain John Pulling Jr.
Captain Robert Keayne
Carl Yastrzemski
Central Congregational Church
Charlestown Heights
Charlestown Navy Yard
Charlestown Navy Yard
Charlestown Training Field / Winthrop Square
Charlestown World War II Memorial
Cheers
Chelsea Spanish American War Memorial
Chester Harding House
Christ Church
City of Chelsea
City of Chelsea
City of Revere
City of Revere Civil War Memorial
City Square: Continuity and Change
Clough House
Coastal Mines
Colonel Thomas Cass and the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry
Colonial Craftsmen
Commander Barry Carle
Commodore John Barry
Confederate POWs
Congregational House
Connecticut Gate
Converse
Copps Hill and the American Revolution
Copps Hill Burying Ground
Court of the Assistants
Custom House
Custom House
D.L. Moody
David Walker
Deacon Larkin House
Deane Winthrop House
Defense System
Derne Street
Dorchester Heights
Dorchester Heights
Dorchester Heights Thomas Park
Dorchester Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Dry Dock 1
Ebenezer Hancock House
Edgar Allan Poe
Edward A. Filene
Edward Everett Hale
Electric Fire Alarm System 1852
Elizabeth Peabody Bookstore
Emerson Majestic Theatre
Enlisted Men
Escape!
Family Memorials
Faneuil Hall
Faneuil Hall
Federal Building
Fenway Park
First Commercial Dental Laboratory in America
Flags at Sea
Flour and Grain Exchange
Fort Warren
Franklin Place
From Colonial Burying Ground to Victorian Park
Garden Court Street
Gardner Museum
Gate One, Charlestown Navy Yard
Gen. Henry Knox Trail
Gen. Henry Knox Trail
General Casimir Pulaski
General Joseph Hooker
General Tadeusz Kosciuszko
George Francis Parkman
George Robert White
George Thorndike Angell
Governor Winthrop House
Granary Burying Ground
Gravestone Art: Skulls, Wings, and Other Symbols
Gravestone Carving
Great House
Green Dragon Tavern
Harrison Gray Otis House
Harry Houdini
Huguenots, Women, and Tories
In Commemoration
James Otis
Jean Lefebvre Decheverus
John Albion Andrew
John Boyle O'Reilly
John Glover of Marblehead
John Greenwood / Ann Pollard / Harriot Keziah Hunt / Charlotte Saunders Cushman
John Hancock Residence
John Hurd House
John Quincy Adams
John Smibert
John Telemachus Hilton
John Tileston / To Those Men of the North End
John Winthrop - First House in Boston Site
John Winthrop / Nicholas Upsall / Cotton Mather / John Hull
Jordan Marsh
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Josiah and Abiah Franklin
King's Chapel
King's Chapel and Beyond
Kings Chapel Burial Ground
Krystle Campbell
Lewis Wharf, 1835
Liberty and Union
Liberty Tree Block
Life and Death in Colonial Boston
Life and Work in the Navy Yard 1812
Louisburg Square
Magoun Counting-House Site
Mansion of Gov. Hutchinson
Manufactory House Site
Margaret Deland
Maria W. Stewart
Mary Dyer
Massachusetts Gate
Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment
Men of the Boston Naval Shipyard
Metcalf Square
Michael S. Dukakis South Station Transportation Center
Monument to Ether
Moses Pierce-Hichborn House
Mrs. Gardner's Address
New England Courant
New Fenway Park
New Hampshire Gate
North Church Lanterns
North Church Tower
North End Veterans Memorial
North Sea Mine Force Memorial
North Square
North Square Houses, 1715
North-East Corner of the Redoubt
Old South Church
Old South Meeting House
Old South Meeting House
Old West Church
Omni Hotels: The Parker House
On these Heights
On This Site Stood the Home of John Singleton Copley
Oneida Football Club of Boston
Parade Ground
Park Street Church
Park Street Congregational Church
Patrick Andrew Collins
Patrolman Andrew B. Cuneo
Paul Revere
Paul Revere & William Dawes
Paul Revere Buried in this Ground
Paul Revere House
Paul Revere House
Paul Revere Mall
Paul Reveres Landing
Pilgrims and Patriots
Ping On Alley
Poe Returning to Boston
Political Prisoners
Pope John Paul II's Visit to Boston
Powder Magazine
Power System of Bostons Rapid Transit, 1889
Proclamation of the "Bells" Journey
Public Latin School
Rear Admiral John Ancrum Winslow Memorial
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Robert Lee Frost
Robert McCloskey
Robert Newman
Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams House Site
Samuel Tucker / Increase Mather / Edward Holyoke / Edward Everett / Christian Gullager
Sargent's Folly
Serving the Fleet
Seventeenth Century Burials
Seventeenth Century Copps Hill
Signal Lanterns of Paul Revere
Sir William Phips / Joseph Warren / John Manley / Edmund Hartt
Site of the English High School
Site of the First Meeting House in Boston Built A.D. 1632
Site of the House of Robert Treat Paine
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Soldiers and Sailors of Ward 2
South Station
South-East Corner of the Redoubt
Spring Lane
St. Stephen's Church
St. Stephen's Church
Teammates
Ted Williams
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Chelsea Creek
The Bell-in-Hand
The Boston Massacre
The Breastwork
The Changing Yard
The Charles River Esplanade
The Chevalier de Saint Sauveur
The Cocoanut Grove
The Common / Charles Street
The Common / The Freedom Trail / America's First Subway
The Continental Wingate Company Building
The Decisive Day has come on which the fate of America depends...
The First Governor
The Freedom Trail
The Freedom Trail
The Freedom Trail
The Gerrymander
The Goal
The Great Spring
The Historic Beacon Hill District
The Hull Mint
The Ice King, the Castle Captain, and the She-Merchant
The Lafayette Mall
The Land
The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
The Liberator Site
The Line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection
The Long Lane Meeting House
The Mason Houses
The Mathers
The Men of the North End
The Mess
The Monument
The Old Corner Bookstore
The Old North Church
The Old State House
The Parker House
The Paul Revere House
The Province House
The Rail Fence and Grass Line
The Rogers Building
The Salutation Tavern / The Green Dragon Tavern
The Sculptor
The Training Field's Struggle for Survival
The Union
The Waterfront Then and Now / The Custom House
The Yard as Home
This Cannon
This Column Stands on Union!
Thomas Handasyd Perkins House, 1833-1854
Three Centuries of Use & Transformation
To Those Men of the North End / Thomas Cass
Tombs and Monuments
Tragic Events
Tremont Street Subway
Tremont Temple
Trinity Church
Trinity Church
Trinity Church in the City of Boston
Tudor Wharves
Tyrannosaurus rex
U.S. Custom House
U.S.S. Boston
Union Oyster House
United States Gate
Unusual Gravestones
USS Constitution
USS Leyte (CV-32)
Van Ness Street Player Banners
Victims of the Boston Massacre
Vietnam/Korean Conflict Memorial
Vilna Shul
Welcome to Boston's Old City Hall
Welcome to Copps Hill Burying Ground
Welcome to Granary Burying Ground
Welcome to Kings Chapel Burying Ground
Wendell Phillips
West Church
William Billings
William Dawes Jr.
William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing Residence
Winthrop Building
Working in the Yard
You are now my enemy and I am yours...
"A state of perfect chaos"
"Old Ironsides" in Dry Dock 1
In 1630, the settlement of Boston was founded by Puritan colonists led by John Winthrop. Over the next few decades, Boston became a major center of trade and commerce. Suffolk County was officially established in 1643, encompassing the towns of Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester. The county was named after Suffolk in East Anglia, England, the birthplace of many of the settlers.
During the American Revolution, Suffolk County played a significant role. The Boston Tea Party, a protest against British taxation, occurred in Boston Harbor in 1773. Battles such as the Battle of Bunker Hill took place in the county, as the British sought to regain control of the city. After the war, Boston continued to thrive as an important port and center of industry.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Suffolk County experienced significant growth and development. The Industrial Revolution led to the expansion of manufacturing, with industries such as textiles and shoes becoming prominent. The county also underwent a major urban renewal effort in the mid-20th century, resulting in the construction of modern buildings and infrastructure.
Today, Suffolk County remains a vibrant and diverse region, home to the city of Boston and many other thriving communities. It continues to be a hub of culture, education, and innovation, attracting residents and visitors from around the world.
Brief timeline of the history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts:
- Suffolk County, MA was established in 1643.
- In 1774, the county played a significant role in the American Revolution, with events such as the Boston Tea Party.
- During the 19th century, Suffolk County became an important center for manufacturing and trade.
- In the early 20th century, Suffolk County experienced an influx of immigrants, particularly from Europe.
- In 2004, Suffolk County became the first county in Massachusetts to adopt the Community Preservation Act.
This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.