Columbus Avenue (est.1860) in Boston, Massachusetts, runs from Park Square to just south of Melnea Cass Boulevard, as well as from Tremont Street to Walnut Avenue and Seaver Street, where it continues as Seaver Street to Blue Hill Avenue and to Erie Street, where it ends. It intersects the South End and Roxbury neighborhoods.
Buildings & tenants
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Armory of the First Corps of Cadets
Doris Bunte Apartments
Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe
Home for Aged Couples
Northeastern University
Roxbury Community College
Youth's Companion Building
Former buildings & tenants
Allan Crite
Boston Flower Exchange
Hotel Statler, Columbus Avenue and Arlington Street
Massachusetts Metaphysical College
Pope Manufacturing Company, 1890s
Savoy Cafe
South End Grounds
Temple Israel (Boston) Vega Company Waitt & Bond Factory (Later owned by Alles & Fisher, now part of Northeastern University)
Images
References
External links
Bostonian Society has materials related to the street. Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress). Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston. "This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners designed a number of buildings in Boston and New England in the late 19th century." Edison-Spencer-Grafton Block, 254-264 Columbus Avenue, Boston New York Public Library. Item related to Columbus Ave., Boston Boston College. Hotel Statler, Columbus Avenue and Arlington Street photo, 1926 Intersection of Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue, photo c. 1933 City of Boston Archives. Photo of Columbus Avenue divisional strip project, June 2, 1948 Columbus Avenue looking north east toward Concord Square, Columbus Ave. Anniversary of Battle of Bunker Hill, 1875. Photo by J.W. Black MIT. Photo