Blake and Amory Building Boston, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places Data
Blake and Amory Building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000272
- Date Listed
- June 2, 2014
- Name
- Blake and Amory Building
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 59 Temple Pl.
- City/Town
- Boston
- County
- Suffolk
- State
- Massachusetts
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; COMMERCE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Blake and Amory Building is significant under Criterion A for Commerce for its role in the city's garment and apparel industry, and as one of the last vestiges of the early 20th-century heyday of Washington Street, Boston's principal downtown shopping district. The subject building is also significant under Criterion C for Architecture as a locally significant work of prominent local architect Arthur H. Bowditch, and it remains a fine example of a Chicago School-style commercial building in Boston. Retaining integrity of location, design, setting, materials, feeling, workmanship, and association, the Blake and Amory Building is significant at the local level.
