I recall my Dad getting sworn into the Mass. Bar Association in the old Suffolk Courthouse and remember that where Pemberton Sq is now behind 1, 2, and 3 Center Plaza that there was a street with buildings. I remember that my Dad later began working in the Chas. Hurley building at the corner of Cambridge and Staniford St, sometime around the late 60's I think ('68 perhaps.) I began Suffolk University in 1973 and Gov't Ctr was fully built at that point. Eileen Velez, Hyde Park, MA BBFFRRPP wrote: >Hello, > >Someone just responded to my query about "The Temporary Home" on Chardon >Street in Boston from the early 1900's, which is currently New Chardon >Street in "the Government Center" area of Boston. She mentioned visiting >New Chardon Street in the 1980's. That made me wonder when the new >"Government Center" was built. > >I was born and raised in Greater Boston and continue to live only a 1/2-hour >drive from Boston, and my (sometimes not-so-great memory) thought it had >only been there for about 20 years. (My how time passes by.) My friend >who grew up in Cambridge remembers driving by "the Government Center" in the >late 1950's or early 1960's. I just did a search for "Government Center, >Boston," and I found the following web site which stated that this "Urban >Renewal Project" was started in 1961: > >http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~planning/cgis/arch.html > >This is amazing because this means the building or re-building of that part >of Boston was started while I was still in high school ... > >Betty (near Lowell, MA) > > > >"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children; >one is roots, the other is wings." > >Hodding Carter, Jr. > > > >==== BOSTON Mailing List ==== >Discover the City Archives and Records of Boston: >http://www.ci.boston.ma.us/archivesandrecords/information.asp > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > >