Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company

25-39 Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts. County/parish: Suffolk.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 09, 1980. NRIS 80000453.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company building

The Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company building is a historic utility company building at 25–39 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

The seven-story Beaux Arts building was constructed in 1906 to a design by Winslow & Bigelow and enlarged in 1922 to a design by Bigelow & Wadsworth. It served as the headquarters of the Boston Edison Illuminating Company until the 1950s. It is an early skyscraper with Beaux Arts detailing and made of limestone.

In 1980 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places; in 1984 it was purchased to become the home of Saint Francis House.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792741

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